Job 7:6
My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.
7Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.
Cross References
Job 6:11What power haue I that I should endure? or what is mine end, if I should prolong my life?
Job 13:15Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
Job 16:22For the yeeres accounted come, and I shall go the way, whence I shall not returne.
Job 17:11My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart
Psalms 90:5Thou hast ouerflowed them: they are as a sleepe: in the morning he groweth like the grasse:
Psalms 103:15The dayes of man are as grasse: as a flowre of the fielde, so florisheth he.
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 →