Tree of Life Version
Job 7:6
6My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle and 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
4When I lay down I say, “When will I rise?” The night drags on, and I toss until the day dawns. 5My flesh is clothed with maggots and clods of dirt; My skin is broken and festering. My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle and come to an end without hope. 7Remember, my life is but a breath; my eyes will not see goodness again! 8The eye that sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will be on me, but I will be no more.
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 days are swifter than a runner; they flee away without seeing goodness.
- Job 16:22“For the number of years will come to pass, and then I will go the way of no return.
- Job 17:11My days have passed, my plans are torn apart. Yet the desires of my heart
- Psalms 90:5You sweep them away in their sleep. In the morning they are like sprouting grass—
- Psalms 102:11because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and tossed me aside.
- Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass— he flourishes like a flower of the field,
- Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath— his days are like a passing shadow.
- Isaiah 38:12Like a shepherd’s tent, my dwelling is pulled up and carried away from me. Like a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom. From day until night You make my end.
- Isaiah 40:6A voice is saying, “Cry out!” So I said, “What shall I cry out?” “All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
- James 1:11For the sun arises with a scorching heat and withers the grass, and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed. So also the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.
- James 4:14Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- 1 Peter 1:24For, “All humanity is like grass, And all its glory like a wildflower. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,
- Job 6:11“What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should endure?
- Job 17:15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity yet the righteous has a refuge even in death.
- Jeremiah 2:25Do not run while your feet are bare and your throat is thirsty. But you said ‘There is no hope! No! For I have loved foreign gods and I will go after 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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