Job 7:6
My yamim are swifter than a weaverʼs shuttle, 1 and are spent without tikveh. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
In Context
5My basar is clothed with worm and clod of aphar; 1 my ohr (skin) is broken, and become loathsome. 1
7O remember that my life is ruach (wind); 1 mine eye shall no more see tov. 1
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my koach, that I should wait? 1 And what is mine end, that I should make patient my nefesh? 1
Job 13:15Though He slay me, yet will I wait for and trust in Him; 1 but I will maintain my derech before Him. + 13:15 Isa 53:8,10 1
Job 16:22When a few shanot are come, 1 then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job 17:11My yamim are past, 1 my plans are broken, 1 even the morashot (possessions, desires) of my lev. 1
Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; 1 they are as a sheinah (sleep); 1 in the boker they are like khatzir (grass) which withereth. 1
Psalms 103:15As for enosh (mankind), his yamim are like khatzir (green grass, herbage); 1 like tzitz hasadeh (a flower of the field), so he flourisheth. 1
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 →