ヨブ記 7:6 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 7:6-9

The speedy flight of life. In the multitude of his thoughts within him, Job glances at many of the painful aspects of life. His view is influenced by the condition of his spirit. With a longing for the grave, he nevertheless mourns over the rapid flight of his few days upon earth. Such a reflection every one may wisely make. Consider the expressive similes in which Job sees his hasty life represented. 1 . His days are swifter than the weaver's shuttle (verse 6). 2 . They are as the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle - That is, they are short and few. He does not here refer so much to the rapidity with which they were passing away as to the fact that they would soon be gone, and that he was likely to be cut off without being permitted to enjoy the blessings of a long life; compare the notes at Isaiah 38:12. The weaver’s shuttle is the instrument by which the weaver inserts the filling in the woof. With us few things would furnish a more striking emblem of rapidity... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 7:5-6

Job 7:5-6. My flesh is clothed with worms Which were bred out of his corrupted flesh and sores, and which, it seems, covered him all over like a garment. And clods of dust The dust of the earth on which he lay. My skin is broken By ulcers breaking out in all parts of it. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle Which passes in a moment from one side of the web to the other. So the time of my life hastens to a period; and therefore vain are those hopes which you would give me of a... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 7:1-21

Job’s reply to Eliphaz (6:1-7:21)Eliphaz had rebuked Job for his impatient outburst. In reply Job acknowledges that God is the one who has sent this affliction, but he points out that if Eliphaz knew how great this suffering was he would understand why Job spoke rashly (6:1-4). An animal cries out only with good reason (for example, if it is hungry for food). Job likewise cries out only with good reason. His tormenting thoughts and Eliphaz’s useless words are to him like food that makes him... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 7:6

Job 7:6. And are spent without hope— תקוה באפס ויכלו vayiklu beaepes tikvah. Literally, And they are destroyed even to the extremity of hope. Heath renders it, And even the least glimmering of hope is at an end. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 7:6

6. ( :-). Every day like the weaver's shuttle leaves a thread behind; and each shall wear, as he weaves. But Job's thought is that his days must swiftly be cut off as a web; without hope—namely, of a recovery and renewal of life (Job 14:19; 1 Chronicles 29:15). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 7:1-6

Job’s miserable suffering 7:1-6"The rest of Job’s speech is more like a soliloquy which turns into a remonstration against God Himself. His theme is once more the hard service that men have upon earth." [Note: Andersen, p. 134.] "That Job speaks realistically about his pains here, in contrast to the unrealistic wish never to have been born that he uttered in his curse-lament (ch. 3), means that he is beginning to cope with his real situation." [Note: Hartley, p. 142.] In this complaint (cf. ch.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 7:1-21

2. Job’s first reply to Eliphaz chs. 6-7Job began not with a direct reply to Eliphaz but with another complaint about his condition. Then he responded to Eliphaz’s speech but addressed all three of his friends. The "you" and "yours" in Job 6:24-30 are plural in the Hebrew text. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:1-21

Job’s First Speech (concluded)1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.1. Man’s life is a lot of hardship. Appointed time] RM ’time of service.’2, 3. As the labourer longs for the weary day to end and to receive his wages, so Job bemoans the length of his sufferings and sighs for death to end them. 3. Months of vanity] so called because they were unsatisfactory, hopeless. ’Months’ imply that Job’s sufferings had lasted a considerable time. 5. Worms] from the diseased flesh.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 7:1-21

Job 7:6 ; Job 7:9 Having gazed, in their brief fate, on a life that is no life at all, they disappear like a vapour, convinced alone of what each hath met in his whirling to and fro in all directions. Empedocles. Job 7:7 Although we have some experience of living, there is not a man on earth who has flown so high into abstraction as to have any practical guess at the meaning of the word life. All literature, from Job and Omar Khayyam to Thomas Carlyle or Walt Whitman, is but an attempt to... read more