I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that often I have planned to come to you (and have been prevented so far) so that I may obtain some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

2 Corinthians 1:15-17

In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;

James 4:13-15

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Job 17:11

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

My days

Job 7:6

Job 9:25

Isaiah 38:10

Purposes

General references

Ecclesiastes 2:20

Isaiah 38:10

Bible References

My days

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And come to an end without hope.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.

I said, “In the middle of my life
I am to enter the gates of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”

Purposes

The mind of man plans his way,
But the Lord directs his steps.

Many plans are in a man’s heart,
But the counsel of the Lord will stand.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

“Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted;
State a proposal, but it will not stand,
For

God is with us.”

Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?

In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a

blessing;

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

General references

Therefore I completely despaired of all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.

I said, “In the middle of my life
I am to enter the gates of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”