God’s Word Translation
Job 7:6
6My days go swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. They 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 ask, ‘When will I get up?’ But the evening is long, and I’m exhausted from tossing about until dawn. 5My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin is crusted over with sores; then they ooze. My days go swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. They are spent without hope. 7Remember, my life is only a breath, and never again will my eyes see anything good. 8The eye that watches over me will no longer see me. Your eye will look for me, but I’ll be gone.
Read all of Job 7Job 7:6 word by word
יָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי־אָ֑רֶג וַ֝יִּכְל֗וּ בְּאֶ֣פֶס תִּקְוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 7:6
- Job 9:25“My days go by more quickly than a runner. They sprint away. They don’t see anything good.
- Job 16:22because in a few short years I will take the path of no return.
- Job 17:11My days are passing by. My plans are broken. My dreams ⌞are shattered⌟.
- Psalms 90:5You sweep mortals away. They are a dream. They sprout again in the morning like cut grass.
- Psalms 102:11My days are like a shadow that is getting longer, and I wither away like grass.
- Psalms 103:15Human life is as short-lived as grass. It blossoms like a flower in the field.
- Psalms 144:4Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.
- Isaiah 38:12My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd’s tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day.
- Isaiah 40:6A voice called, “Call out!” I asked, “What should I call out?” “Call out: All people are like grass, and all their beauty is like a flower in the field.
- James 1:11The sun rises with its scorching heat and dries up plants. The flowers drop off, and the beauty is gone. The same thing will happen to rich people. While they are busy, they will die.
- James 4:14You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. What is life? You are a mist that is seen for a moment and then disappears.
- 1 Peter 1:24“All people are like grass, and all their beauty is like a flower of the field. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,
- Job 6:11What strength do I have ⌞left⌟ that I can go on hoping? What goal do I have that I would want to prolong my life?
- Job 17:15then where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me?
- Proverbs 14:32A wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but even in his death a righteous person has a refuge.
- Jeremiah 2:25Don’t run until your feet are bare and your throats are dry. But you say that it’s useless. You love foreign gods and follow them.
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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