My days have passed by, my plans have been broken off – the desires of my heart.
“My spirit has been broken, my days have been extinguished, graves are for me.
They would turn night into day, saying that light is near, in the presence of darkness!
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without expectancy.
To man belongs the preparations of the heart, But from יהוה is the answer of the tongue.
A man’s heart plans his way, But יהוה establishes his steps.
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, But it is the counsel of יהוה that stands.
All that your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.
I said, “Am I to go into the gates of the grave in the prime of my life? Shall I be deprived of the rest of my years?”
“Take counsel, and it comes to naught; speak a word, and it does not stand, for Ě
Who was it that spoke, And it came to be! Has יהוה not commanded it?
And I do not wish you to be unaware, brothers, that I often purposed to come to you, but was hindered until now, in order to have some fruit among you, as also among the other gentiles.