New Living Translation
Job 7:6
6“My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They 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
4Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?’ But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn. 5My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus. “My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They end without hope. 7O God, remember that my life is but a breath, and I will never again feel happiness. 8You see me now, but not for long. You 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 7:6
- Job 9:25“My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
- Job 16:22For soon I must go down that road from which I will never return.
- Job 17:11My days are over. My hopes have disappeared. My heart’s desires are broken.
- Psalms 90:5You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in the morning.
- Psalms 102:11My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass.
- Psalms 103:15Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
- Psalms 144:4For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow.
- Isaiah 38:12My life has been blown away like a shepherd’s tent in a storm. It has been cut short, as when a weaver cuts cloth from a loom. Suddenly, my life was over.
- Isaiah 40:6A voice said, “Shout!” I asked, “What should I shout?” “Shout that people are like the grass. Their beauty fades as quickly as the flowers in a field.
- James 1:11The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away. In the same way, the rich will fade away with all of their achievements.
- James 4:14How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.
- 1 Peter 1:24As the Scriptures say, “People are like grass; their beauty is like a flower in the field. The grass withers and the flower fades.
- Job 6:11But I don’t have the strength to endure. I have nothing to live for.
- Job 17:15Where then is my hope? Can anyone find it?
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked are crushed by disaster, but the godly have a refuge when they die.
- Jeremiah 2:25When will you stop running? When will you stop panting after other gods? But you say, ‘Save your breath. I’m in love with these foreign gods, and I can’t stop loving them now!’
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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