What is the meaning of Job 7:6? My days • Job begins with an intensely personal statement: “My days…” (Job 7:6). • The focus is on the limited, human span of time, echoing other laments about life’s brevity (Job 14:1–2; Psalm 90:9–10; James 4:14). • By drawing attention to “days,” Job underlines that even the smallest units of life feel burdensome under suffering. Are swifter • He notices not merely that time passes, but that it rushes by. • David voiced a similar sense of acceleration: “Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths” (Psalm 39:4–5). • From our vantage point, years can fly, yet each moment still carries weight (Psalm 31:15). Than a weaver’s shuttle • In weaving, the shuttle flashes back and forth, almost faster than the eye can track. • Isaiah likened life to weaving when he cried, “Like a weaver I have rolled up my life” (Isaiah 38:12). • Job’s picture stresses relentless motion—time never pauses, never reverses, never slows. They come to an end • The shuttle does not glide forever; the cloth reaches its final row. • Job feels the loom finishing its piece: “My life is passing away” (Psalm 102:3). • Life’s appointed end is certain (Hebrews 9:27), a reality Moses wanted Israel to grasp for wise living (Deuteronomy 32:29). Without hope • In his pain, Job sees no bright thread left to weave. “What strength do I have, that I should continue to hope?” (Job 6:11; see also 17:15–16). • His feelings mirror the Gentiles’ condition “without hope and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12). • Yet Scripture reveals that true hope is anchored in the living God who later restores Job (Job 42:10) and now promises “a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:13). summary Job 7:6 captures the rush of human life, the certainty of its conclusion, and the despair that suffering can bring. Like a shuttle racing across a loom, our days speed along, reminding us of life’s brevity and our need for the steadfast hope God alone provides. |
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