Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
In Context
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
7O remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength that I should wait? And what is my end that I should be patient?
Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
Job 16:22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.
Job 17:11My days are past. my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Psalms 90:5Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Matthew Henry on Job 7:2-7
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling? 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When 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. 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my… Read the whole commentary →