Job 7:6 Meaning and Explanation
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Job 7:6 Mean?
Job reaches for a craftsman's image: the shuttle that flies back and forth across the loom faster than the eye can follow. So his days race past, and from where he sits they seem to run out before any hope can be woven in.
It is a striking picture of life's brevity felt in the grip of pain. Yet even as Job says his days are spent 'without hope,' the larger story will not leave him there. Scripture sets such honest despair within a wider weaving, where the God who holds the thread is fashioning more than the sufferer can yet see.
Job 7:6 in the Original Language
tiqvah (תִּקְוָה), 'hope' -- the same word means a stretched cord or thread, fitting the loom's imagery.
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What does Job 7:6 mean?
Job laments that his days fly by like a weaver's shuttle and seem to end without hope.