Job 7:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 7:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 17:15
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
Isaiah 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. …
Psalms 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Life Shuttle

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 desir…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. (Is 38:12). Every day like the weaver’s shuttle leaves a thread behind; and each shall wear, as he weaves. But Job’s thought is that his days must swiftly be cut off as a web; without hope--namely, of a recovery and renewal of life (Job 14:19; 1Ch 29:15).