Job 7:6 · KJV
“My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
— Job 7:6
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
O remember that my life {is} wind: mine eye shall no more see good. {shall...: Heb. shall not return} {see: to see, that is, to enjoy}
Job 7 — Context
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. {the night...: Heb. the evening be measured?}
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7O remember that my life {is} wind: mine eye shall no more see good. {shall...: Heb. shall not return} {see: to see, that is, to enjoy}
8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no {more}: thine eyes {are} upon me, and I {am} not. {I am...: that is, I can live no longer}
Cross References
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. {the thoughts: Heb. the possessions}
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. {with...: or, from the thrum}
Psalms 103:15-16
{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Isaiah 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:
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.