Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And come to an end without hope.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle;
they come to an end without hope.

International Standard Version

My days pass as swiftly as a hand-loom; they come to their conclusion without hope.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

My days were swift above a weaver's shuttle, and will finish with no more of hope.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

my days pass over more speedily than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
My days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

ארג 
'ereg 
Usage: 2

אפס 
'ephec 
ends, no, none, not, nothing, without, else, beside, but, cause, howbeit, .
Usage: 43

References

Context Readings

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and abominable. 6 “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And come to an end without hope.
7 Remember thou that my life is wind and that my eyes shall not return to see good.

Cross References

Job 9:25

Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.

Job 17:15

And where shall my hope be now? As for my hope, who shall see it?

Job 17:11

My days are past, my thoughts were broken off, even the purposes of my heart.

Job 6:11

What is my strength that I should hope? What is my end that I should prolong my life?

Job 13:15

Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.

Job 16:22

When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

Psalm 90:5-6

Thou dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are as a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 103:15-16

As for man, his days are as grass; as an open flower of the field, so he blossoms.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

Proverbs 14:32

For his wickedness shall the wicked be cast out, but the righteous in his death has hope.

Isaiah 38:12-13

My dwelling place has been moved and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent; he has cut off my life like a weaver: he has cut me off with sickness: between the day and the night thou shalt consume me.

Isaiah 40:6-7

The voice that said, Cry. And I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the mercy thereof is as the open flower of the field:

Jeremiah 2:25

Withhold thy foot from being unshod and thy throat from thirst; but thou didst say, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.

Ephesians 2:12

that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world,

James 1:11

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beautiful appearance of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

James 4:14

and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

1 Peter 1:13

Therefore, having the loins of your understanding girded with temperance, wait perfectly in the grace that is presented unto you when Jesus, the Christ, is manifested unto you,

1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

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