Job 7:6 “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end witho…”

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.

Geneva Bible 1599

My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

Bible in Basic English

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

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Cross references

“swifter”

Job 9:25 Job 17:11 Job 16:22 Psalm 144:4 1 Peter 1:24 Psalm 102:11

Job 9:25 · BSB

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Job 17:11 · BSB

My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.

Job 16:22 · BSB

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

Psalm 144:4 · BSB

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

1 Peter 1:24 · BSB

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

Psalm 102:11 · BSB

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

“without hope”

Job 17:15 Proverbs 14:32 Job 6:11 Ephesians 2:12 Jeremiah 2:25 1 Peter 1:13

Job 17:15 · BSB

where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?

Proverbs 14:32 · BSB

The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

Job 6:11 · BSB

What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

Ephesians 2:12 · BSB

remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Jeremiah 2:25 · BSB

You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

1 Peter 1:13 · BSB

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Also

Job 13:15

Job 13:15 · BSB

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Read Job 7