Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 7 connects to 10 cross-references. Job addresses God directly, lamenting that human life is like forced labor with no relief. He describes his sleepless nights, wasting body, and asks God why he targets one so frail. His questions — 'What is man that you make …
Otras traducciones
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.
My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Referencias cruzadas
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass …
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.