KJV King James Version
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
WEB World English Bible
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
ASV American Standard Version
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
Surrounding context — Job 7
3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 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.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not.
9 [As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more].
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Job 9:25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.Job 17:15And where [is] now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.Proverbs 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.Psalm 103:15-16[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.Job 16:22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.Psalm 144:4Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.Isaiah 40:6-7The 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:Isaiah 38:12-13Mine 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.1 Peter 1:24For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:Psalm 102:11My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.James 4:14Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.Ephesians 2:12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.James 1:11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.Psalm 90:5-6Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.Job 6:11What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life?Jeremiah 2:25Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
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