Job 7:6

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Summary

Job 7:6

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

Swifter

Without hope

Bible References

Swifter

"And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good.

Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.

"My days are past; my plans are broken down-- [even] the desires of my heart.

You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.

My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.

As for man, his days [are] like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.

Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.

My dwelling place is pulled up and removed from me like the tent of my shepherd; I have rolled up my life like weaver. He cuts me off from [the] thrum; from day to night you bring me to an end.

A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field.

For the sun rises with its burning heat and dries up the grass, and its flower falls off, and the beauty of its appearance is lost. So also the rich person in his pursuits will wither away.

you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,

Without hope

What [is] my strength, that I should wait? And what [is] my end, that {I should hold out}?

where then [is] my hope? And {who will see my hope}?

By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown, and the righteous will find refuge in his death.

Restrain your foot from [being] barefoot, and your throat from thirst. But you said, '[It is] hopeless. No! For I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.'

that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

Therefore, {when you have prepared your minds for action} [by] being self-controlled, put your hope completely in the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.