Job 7:6
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 skin is broken, and become loathsome.
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- KJV
- My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- WEB
- My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- ASV
- My days are swifter than a weaver`s shuttle, And are spent without hope.
- DARBY
- My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- BLB
- My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; and they end without hope.
- ÅB
- Mine dager farer hurtigere avsted enn en veverskyttel, og de svinner bort uten håp.
- OTB
- Mine dager går raskere enn en veverskyttel,
Og de avsluttes uten håp. - B1930
- Mine dager farer hurtigere avsted enn en veverskyttel, og de svinner bort uten håp.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Read in contextJob 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Read in contextJob 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:12–13
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:6–7
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
Read in context1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Read in contextPsalms 103:15–16
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Read in contextPsalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Read in context