“ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. ”
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle - That is, they are short and few. He does not here refer so much to the rapidity with which they were passing away as to the fact that they would soon...
My days are swifter than (d) a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. (d) Thus he speaks in respect for the brevity of man's life, which passes without hope of returning: in consideration of...
Job complains of the misery of his life and destiny. How is it that Job does not go on to maintain his innocence? Instead of this he proceeds to show how dreadfully he suffers, and to accuse God of c...
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. Swifter than a weaver's shuttle - The word ארג areg signifies rather the weaver than his shuttle. And it has been doubted whet...
And are spent without hope— תקוה באפס ויכלו vayiklu beaepes tikvah. Literally, And they are destroyed even to the extremity of hope. Heath renders it, And even the least glimmering of hope is...
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. Days. "I have cut off like a weaver my life" ( Isaiah 38:12 ). Every day, like the weaver's shuttle, leaves a thread b...
Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for...
Longing for the Evening Job 7:1-21 The servant eagerly longs for the lengthening shadow, which tells him that his day of labor is at an end, and we may allow ourselves to anticipate the hour of...
Without waiting for their reply, Job broke out into a new lamentation, more bitter than the first, for it came out of a heart whose sorrow was aggravated by the misunderstanding of friends. Indeed, i...
(1) В¶ Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? (2) As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward...
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle ,.... Which moves very swiftly, being thrown quick and fast to and fro; some versions render it "a racer" b one that runs a race on foot, or rides on hors...
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. Ver. 6. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle] Which is of a very swift and sudden motion. Nights and days pass the sh...
My flesh is clothed with worms Which were bred out of his corrupted flesh and sores, and which, it seems, covered him all over like a garment. And clods of dust The dust of the earth on which he...
DOES GOD NOT RECOMPENSE GOOD DEEDS? (vv.1-16) Job's questions in verse 1 indicate why he was so distressed at God's dealings. No doubt too his friends would agree to his questions. "Is there not...
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth...
The time of my life hastens to a period; and therefore vain are those hopes which you give me of a restitution to my former prosperity in this world. A weaver's shuttle, which passeth in a moment f...
CONTINUATION OF JOB’S SPEECH Job ceases to altercate with Eliphaz and to defend himself. Resumes his complaints, and ends by addressing himself to God. I. Complains of the general lot of human...
Job was sorely troubled by the cruel speeches of his friends, and he answered them out of the bitterness of his soul. What we are first about to read is a part of his language under those circumstanc...
Job 7:1 . Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? הלא צבא hela zaba, Nonne militia est homini super terra, et sicut dies mercenarii dies ejus? “Is not the life of man a warfare upon th...
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. The web of life These words fitly describe the quickness with which the days of our life glide away. The weaver at his frame swiftly throws the shut...
EXPOSITION Job 7:1-18 In this chapter Job first bewails his miserable fate, of which he expects no alleviation (verses 1-10); then claims an unlimited right of complaint (verse 11); and fin...
The General Misery of Human Life
1 Peter 1:13 ; 1 Peter 1:24 ; Ephesians 2:12 ; Isaiah 38:12 ; Isaiah 38:13 ; Isaiah 40:6 ; Isaiah 40:7 ; James 1:11 ; James 4:14 ; Jeremiah 2:25 ; Job 16:22 ; Job 17:11 ; Job 17:15 ; Jo...
Swifter — The time of my life hastens to a period. Shuttle — Which passes in a moment from one end of the web to the other. Hope — Of enjoying any good day here.