Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
World English Bible
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.
7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? 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 have come, I will go the way of no return.
Job 17:11My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
Psalms 90:5You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like 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 →