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Job 7:6
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My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle;they come to an end without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
"My days go by faster than a weaver's tool, and they come to an end without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And they come to an end without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,And come to an end without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
and my days are running out quicker than the thread of a fast-moving needle.
My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
"My days pass by faster than a weaver's shuttle, and my life will end without hope.
My days are swifter than a weavers shuttle, and are spent without hope.
My days pass by without hope, pass faster than a weaver's shuttle.
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and are ended without hope.
my dayes passe ouer more spedely, the a weeuer can weeue out his webbe, and are gone, or I am awarre.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
My dayes passe ouer more spedyly then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
My dayes are swifter then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.
And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
My daies passiden swiftliere thanne a web is kit doun `of a webstere; and tho daies ben wastid with outen ony hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
"My days fly faster than a weaver's shuttle. They end without hope.
My days are faster than a cloth-maker's tool, and come to their end without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.
My days, are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they are spent, without hope.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and come to their end without hope.
My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And come to an end without hope.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
swifter: Job 9:25, Job 16:22, Job 17:11, Psalms 90:5, Psalms 90:6, Psalms 102:11, Psalms 103:15, Psalms 103:16, Psalms 144:4, Isaiah 38:12, Isaiah 38:13, Isaiah 40:6, Isaiah 40:7, James 1:11, James 4:14, 1 Peter 1:24
without hope: Job 6:11, Job 17:15, Proverbs 14:32, Jeremiah 2:25, Ephesians 2:12, 1 Peter 1:13
Reciprocal: Exodus 35:35 - of the weaver Job 8:9 - we are but Job 10:20 - my days few Job 11:18 - because Job 14:1 - of few days Psalms 39:5 - Behold Psalms 119:84 - How Ecclesiastes 8:13 - as a
Cross-References
(5-31) And Noe, when he was five hundred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noe opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle,.... Which moves very swiftly, being thrown quick and fast to and fro; some versions render it "a racer" b one that runs a race on foot, or rides on horseback, agreeably to Job 9:25; where, and in Job 7:7; to it, other similes are used, to set forth the swiftness and fleetness of man's days; as they also are elsewhere represented, as swift as a tale told, a word expressed, or a thought conceived, Psalms 90:9; and so here, by the Septuagint, are said to be "swifter than speech", though wrongly translated: this is to be understood, not of his days of affliction, distress, and sorrow; for these in his apprehension moved but slowly, and he could have been, glad that they had gone on faster; but either his days in common, or particularly his days of prosperity and pleasure, these were soon over with him; and which he sometimes wished for again, see Job 29:1;
and are spent without hope; not without hope of happiness in another world, but without hope of being restored to his outward felicity in this; which Eliphaz had given him some him of, but he had no hope concerning it; see Job 5:24.
b δÏομεÏÏ, Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion in Drusius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My days are swifter than a weaverâs shuttle - That is, they are short and few. He does not here refer so much to the rapidity with which they were passing away as to the fact that they would soon be gone, and that he was likely to be cut off without being permitted to enjoy the blessings of a long life; compare the notes at Isaiah 38:12. The weaverâs shuttle is the instrument by which the weaver inserts the filling in the woof. With us few things would furnish a more striking emblem of rapidity than the speed with which a weaver throws his shuttle from one side of the web to the other. It would seem that such was the fact among the ancients, though the precise manner in which they wove their cloth, is unknown. It was common to compare life with a web, which was filled up by the successive days. The ancient Classical writers spoke of it as a web woven by the Fates. We can all feel the force of the comparison used here by Job, that the days which we live fly swift away. How rapidly is one after another added to the web of life! How soon will the whole web be filled up, and life be closed! A few more shoots of the shuttle and all will be over, and our life will be cut off, as the weaver removes one web from the loom to make way for another. How important to improve the fleeting moments, and to live as if we were soon to see the rapid shuttle flying for the last time!
And are spent without hope - Without hope of recovery, or of future happiness on earth. It does not mean that he had no hope of happiness in the world to come. But such were his trials here, and so entirely had his comforts been removed, that he had no prospect of again enjoying life.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 7:6. Swifter than a weaver's shuttle — The word ××¨× areg signifies rather the weaver than his shuttle. And it has been doubted whether any such instrument were in use in the days of Job. Dr. Russell, in his account of Aleppo, shows that though they wove many kinds of curious cloth, yet no shuttle was used, as they conducted every thread of the woof by their fingers. That some such instrument as the shuttle was in use from time immemorial, there can be no doubt: and it is certain that such an instrument must have been in the view of Job, without which the figure would lose its expression and force. In almost every nation the whole of human existence has been compared to a web; and the principle of life, through the continual succession of moments, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, to a thread woven through that web. Hence arose the fable of the Parcae or Fates, called also the Destinies or Fatal Sisters. They were the daughters of Erebus and Nox, darkness and night; and were three in number, and named Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Clotho held the distaff; Lachesis spun off the thread; and Atropos cut it off with her scissors, when it was determined that life should end. Job represents the thread of his life as being spun out with great rapidity and tenuity, and about to be cut off.
And are spent without hope. — Expectation of future good was at an end; hope of the alleviation of his miseries no longer existed. The hope of future good is the balm of life: where that is not, there is despair; where despair is, there is hell. The fable above mentioned is referred to by Virgil, Ecl. iv., ver. 46, but is there applied to time: -
Talia Secla, suis dixerunt, currite, fusis
Concordes stabili fatorum numine Parcae.
"The FATES, when they this happy thread have spun
Shall bless the sacred clue, and bid it smoothly run."
DRYDEN.
Isaiah uses the same figure, Isaiah 38:12: -
My life is cut off, as by the weaver:
He will sever me from the loom.
In the course of the day thou wilt finish my web.
LOWTH.
Coverdale translates thus: My dayes passe over more spedely then a weaver can weave out his webbe and are gone or I am awarre.
A fine example of this figure is found in the Teemour Nameh, which I shall give in Mr. Good's translation: -
"Praise be to God, who hath woven the web of human affairs in the loom of his will and of his wisdom, and hath made waves of times and of seasons to flow from the fountain of his providence into the ocean of his power." The simile is fine, and elegantly expressed.
