American Standard Version
Job 7:6
6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,And are spent without hope.
Job 7:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- New International Version (NIV)“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.
Context of Job 7:6
4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope. 7Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good. 8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
Read all of Job 7Job 7:6 word by word
יָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי־אָ֑רֶג וַ֝יִּכְל֗וּ בְּאֶ֣פֶס תִּקְוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 7:6
- Job 9:25Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.
- Job 16:22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
- Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Psalms 102:11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
- Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
- Psalms 144:4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
- Isaiah 38:12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Isaiah 40:6The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
- James 1:11For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.
- James 4:14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
- 1 Peter 1:24For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
- Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?
- Job 17:15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous hath a refuge in his death.
- Jeremiah 2:25Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst, It is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Commentaries on Job 7:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Swifter than a weaver's shuttle - The word ארג areg signifies rather the weaver than his shuttle. And it has been doubted whether any such instrument were in use in the days of Job. Dr. Russell, in his account of Aleppo, shows that though they wove many kinds of curious cloth, yet no shuttle was used, as they conducted every thread of the woof by their fingers. That some such instrument as the shuttle was in use from time immemorial, there can be no…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6My days are swifter than a weaver‘s shuttle - That is, they are short and few. He does not here refer so much to the rapidity with which they were passing away as to the fact that they would soon be gone, and that he was likely to be cut off without being permitted to enjoy the blessings of a long life; compare the notes at Isaiah 38:12. The weaver‘s shuttle is the instrument by which the weaver inserts the filling in the woof. With us few things would…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-21Job cried out to God, saying life was too short (7:6–10). This complaint contrasts with his earlier wish for God to end his life (6:9).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. (Is 38:12). Every day like the weaver's shuttle leaves a thread behind; and each shall wear, as he weaves. But Job's thought is that his days must swiftly be cut off as a web; without hope--namely, of a recovery and renewal of life (Job 14:19; 1Ch 29:15).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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