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Job 7:6 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 6. 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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Quick Meaning
Job 7:6 closes the thought unit with the words “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.” Job states “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope” as one poetic claim in Job Describes Life as Forced Labor and Sleepless Nights.
Read It With
- Job 7:1–7:6
Read Job 7:6 with 7:1–7:6. Read alone, “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job compares mortal life to military service and hired labor, then describes empty months, restless nights, damaged skin, and days ending without hope.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Job continues from Job 6:22–6:30: Job notes that he requested no payment or rescue, invites correction, and charges the friends with treating desperate words as wind while overwhelming the vulnerable. Job 7:1–7:6 now develops the next distinct movement: Job compares mortal life to military service and hired labor, then describes empty months, restless nights, damaged skin, and days ending without hope. Within that relationship, Job 7:6 closes the thought unit through “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
Read Job 7:1–6 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 7:1–7:6 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Describes Life as Forced Labor and Sleepless Nights.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Verse 2. 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Verse 3. 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Verse 4. 4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Verse 5. 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Verse 6. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
What Remains True
Job compares mortal life to military service and hired labor, then describes empty months, restless nights, damaged skin, and days ending without hope. The enduring truth joins honest recognition of anguish with compassionate presence, protection, and appropriate care rather than diagnosis, blame, or romanticism. Job 7:6 carries that bounded truth through “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
How It Can Shape Life
- When present-day speech echoes the anguish in Job 7:1–7:6, listen without diagnosis or debate, remain compassionately present, support medical and mental-health care, and seek qualified immediate help when safety may be at risk. Preserve this unit-specific boundary in the action: Poetic descriptions of illness and time must not be used for diagnosis or to imply that faithful people should refuse treatment. The verse-specific evidence to retain is “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.”
Continue in Context
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Read Job 7:1–7:6 — Job Describes Life as Forced Labor and Sleepless NightsSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 7:1–7:6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 7:1–7:6
Open the fixed Hebrew Job file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Job
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006; current official PDF
Supports: Verse-level controls for Job's difficult Hebrew, syntax, older KJV language, textual issues, speech boundaries, and alternatives in Job 7:1–7:6.
Exact location: Official NET Job PDF, exact translator, study, and textual notes attached to Job 7:1–7:6
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