New English Translation
Job 7:6
6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end 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
4If I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns. 5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope. 7Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness. 8The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will 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 are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
- Job 16:22For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
- Job 17:11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
- Psalms 90:5You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;
- Psalms 102:11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
- Psalms 103:15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,
- Psalms 144:4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
- Isaiah 38:12My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
- Isaiah 40:6A voice says, “Cry out!” Another asks, “What should I cry out?” The first voice responds: “All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
- James 1:11For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.
- James 4:14You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
- 1 Peter 1:24For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off,
- Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
- Job 17:15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.
- Jeremiah 2:25Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue 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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