# General Information: Job continues to speak. # My days are past This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "My time is past" or "My life is over" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]]) # my plans are shattered, and so are the desires of my heart Here Job's "heart" represents his inner being. Alternate translation: "my plans will never happen, nor will the things that I have desired most" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])