¹¹ My days are past, my plans are broken off, As are the thoughts of my heart.

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

¹³ Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."

¹⁴ Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

¹⁵ For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."

¹⁵ In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

¹⁶ and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

¹⁷ When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"

¹³ Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

³⁷ Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?

¹⁰ I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

¹⁰ Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

²¹ There are many plans in a man's heart, But Yahweh's counsel will prevail.

⁹ A man's heart plans his course, But Yahweh directs his steps.

²⁵ "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

²⁶ They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey.