Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
King James Version
In Context
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Cross References
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Job 16:22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Psalms 90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
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 →