Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
KJV
Dies mei velocius transierunt quam a texente tela succiditur, et consumpti sunt absque ulla spe.
Vulgate
ὁ δὲ βίος μού ἐστιν ἐλαφρώτερος λαλιᾶς, ἀπόλωλεν δὲ ἐν κενῇ ἐλπίδι.
LXX
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.
ASV
יָמַ֣/י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי אָ֑רֶג וַ֝/יִּכְל֗וּ בְּ/אֶ֣פֶס תִּקְוָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַפְסֵי
'psy
noun · 43×
אָ֑רֶג
'rg
noun · 2×
הָקֵל֙
hql
verb · 80×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
ם
m
verb · 203×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
תִּקְוָ֑ה
tqvh
noun · 34×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 1:24 — For 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:
- Eph 2:12 — That 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:
- Isa 38:12 — 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.
- Isa 40:6 — 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:
- Jas 1:11 — For 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 hi
- Jas 4:14 — Whereas 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.
- Jas 4:14 — Whereas 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.
- Job 6:11 — What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
- Job 8:9 — (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
- Job 9:25 — Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
- Job 9:25 — Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
- Job 11:18 — And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
- Job 13:15 — Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
- Job 13:15 — Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
- Job 14:1 — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Job 14:19 — The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
- Job 16:22 — When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- Job 17:11 — My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
- Job 17:11 — My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
- Job 17:15 — And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
- Prov 14:32 — The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
- Ps 39:5 — Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
- Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Ps 102:11 — My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
- Ps 103:15 — As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
- Ps 103:16 — For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
- Ps 144:4 — Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.