Bible Strands
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses God while enduring severe physical deterioration, positioned between his description of festering skin and his declaration that his life is a breath.
The words — The Hebrew employs קַלּוּ (kallu, "they have been swift") and תִקְוָה (tiqvah, "hope") paired with בְּאֶפֶס (be'efes, "without"). The text literally states his days accelerate faster than a weaver's shuttle and terminate in a state devoid of hope.
The thread — This pattern of rapid decline and extinguished expectation appears in Job 9:25, Job 17:11, and Job 17:15. Each passage tracks the same progression from accelerated mortality to the loss of future expectation.
Why it lands — The verse demands acknowledgment that human life advances toward termination without guarantee of restoration. It requires the reader to face mortality as an unmediated process that precedes any theological resolution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Cross-references
- Job 9:25 My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
- Job 17:15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- Job 17:11 My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
- Job 16:22 For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
- Psalms 103:15 As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Psalms 144:4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- Isaiah 38:12 My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Isaiah 40:6 A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
- 1 Peter 1:24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,