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Job 7:6-7 KJV
Job · chapter 7 · verses 6–7
6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.Job 7:6-7 · King James Version
Job 7:6-7 in context
4When 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.
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
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Key words (Strong's)
- rememberzâkarproperly, to markH2142 →
- swifterqâlalto be light, literally or figurativelyH7043 →
- shuttleʼerega weavingH708 →
- withoutʼepheçcessationH657 →
- spentkâlâhto end, whether intransitive or transitivedH3615 →
- daysyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
- lifechayaliveH2416 →
- windrûwachwindH7307 →
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Job is here excusing what he could not justify, even his inordinate desire of death. Why should he not wish for the termination of life, which would be the termination of his miseries? To enforce this reason he argues, I. From the general condition of man upon earth (Job 7:1): "He is of few days, and full of trouble.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6