Job 7:6
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יוֹם
yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso...
קָלַל
qâlal
to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)
כָּלָה
kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
חוּץ
chûwts
properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
יָחַל
yâchal
to wait; by implication, to be patient, hope
Key Terms in This Verse
קָלַל qâlal
to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)
Study H7043 →כָּלָה kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
Study H3615 →יוֹם yôwm
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
Study H3117 →Cross References
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in hi...
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
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