Job 7:6

Job says his days race by like a weaver's shuttle and end without hope. Life feels brief and futile in the grip of his pain.

Cross-references · 19

• Job 9:25“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good.
• Job 17:15where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
• Job 17:11My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
• Job 16:22For when a few years have come, I shall go the way of no return.
• 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
• Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
• Isa 38:12–13My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.
• Isa 40:6–7The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
• Ps 144:4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
• Ps 102:11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
• Job 13:15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
• Ps 90:5–6You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.
• Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
• Jas 1:11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
• Jas 4:14Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
• Eph 2:12that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
• Jer 2:25“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —

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