Job 7:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.”
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BSBPD
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 7:6 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 6:11What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
- Job 9:25My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
- Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
- Job 14:19as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
- Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
- Job 17:1“My spirit is broken; my days are extinguished; the grave awaits me.
- Job 17:11My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.
- Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- Psalms 90:5You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
- Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- Isaiah 38:12My 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.
- Isaiah 38:13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Isaiah 40:6A 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.
- Jeremiah 2:25You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
- 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.
- James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
- 1 Peter 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- 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,
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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