John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 17:11
My days are past ,.... Or "passed away", or "passed over" F23 עברו "transierunt", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; not that they passed over the time fixed and appointed by God, for there is no passing the bound settled by him, Job 14:5 ; but either the common term of man's life was passed with Job, or he speaks of things in his own apprehension; he imagined his death was so near, that he had not a day longer to live; his days, as he before says, were extinct, were at an end, he... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 17:10-16
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows, I. That it was their folly to talk so (Job 17:10): ?Return, and come now, be convinced that you are in an error, and let me persuade you to be of my mind; for I cannot find one wise man among you, that knows how to explain the difficulties of God's providence or how to apply the consolations of his promises.? Those do not go wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted... read more