Job 7:6

In 11 translations

BSB

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

KJV

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

WEB

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

ASV

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.

LSV

My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.

YLT

My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

DBY

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

DRC

My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

GNV

My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.

JPS

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

LXXE

And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי־אָ֑רֶג וַ֝יִּכְל֗וּ בְּאֶ֣פֶס תִּקְוָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ὁ δὲ βίος μου ἔστιν ἐλαφρότερος λαλιᾶς, ἀπόλωλε δὲ ἐν κενῇ ἐλπίδι.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
• Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
• Job 17:11My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.
• 1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
• Isaiah 38:12–13My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me. I composed myself until the…
• Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
• Psalms 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field; when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
• Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
• Isaiah 40:6–7A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on…
• Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
• Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
• Psalms 90:5–6You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning— in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
• Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
• Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
• James 1:11For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
• Job 6:11What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

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