Job 7:6
And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
In Context
7Remember then that my life is breath, and mine eye shall not yet again see good.
Cross References
Job 6:11For what is my strength, that I continue? what is my time, that my soul endures?
Job 13:15Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.
Job 16:22But my years are numbered and their end come, and I shall go by the way by which I shall not return.
Job 17:11My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken.
Psalms 90:5Thou shalt not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day;
Psalms 103:15and wine makes glad the heart of man, to make his face cheerful with oil: and bread strengthens man's heart.
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 →