6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
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. …
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Job is here excusing what he could not justify, even his inordinate desire of death. Why should he not wish for the termination of life, which would be the termination of his miseries? To enforce this reason he argues, I. From the general condition of man upon earth (Job 7:1): “He is of few days, and full of trouble . Every man must die shortly, and every man has some reason (more or less) to desi…
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