Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
*My dayes are swifter then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- *Cross-referenceIob 16.22. psal. 90.6 and 102.11 and 103.15. and 144.4. isa. 40.6. iam. 4.14.
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- 1 Peter 1:24Rank 4 from verse 6
- Isaiah 38:12–13Rank 5 from verse 6
12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
12‖Mine age is departed, and is remoued from me as a shepheards tent: I haue cut off like a weauer my life: he will cut mee off with pining sicknesse: from day euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13I reckoned till morning, that as a Lyon so will hee breake all my bones: from day euen to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Isaiah 40:6–7Rank 6 from verse 6
6The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
6*The voyce sayd; Cry. And hee sayd; What shall I cry? All flesh is grasse, and all the goodlinesse thereof is as the flowre of the field.
7The grasse withereth, the flowre fadeth; because the spirit of the LORD bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse.
- Proverbs 14:32Rank 8 from verse 6
- Psalms 103:15–16Rank 9 from verse 6
15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
15 As for man, his dayes are as grasse: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16†For the winde passeth ouer it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
- Psalms 144:4Rank 10 from verse 6
- Ephesians 2:12Rank 11 from verse 6
12That 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:
12That at that time yee were without Christ, being aliens from the common wealth of Israel, and strangers from the couenants of promise, hauing no hope, & without God in the world.
- James 1:11Rank 12 from verse 6
11For 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 his ways.
11For the Sunne is no sooner risen with a burning heate, but it withereth the grasse; and the flowre thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his wayes.
- James 4:14Rank 13 from verse 6
14Whereas 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.
14Whereas yee know not what shalbe on the morow: *for what is your life? ‖It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and then vanisheth away.
- Psalms 102:11Rank 16 from verse 6
- Psalms 90:5–6Rank 17 from verse 6
5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
5‖Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleepe: in the morning they are like grasse which groweth vp.
6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth vp: in the euening it is cut downe, and withereth.
- Jeremiah 2:25Rank 18 from verse 6
25Withhold 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.
25‖Withhold thy foote from being vnshod, and thy throte from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope. No, for I haue loued strangers, and after them will I goe.
- 1 Peter 1:13Rank 19 from verse 6
13Wherefore 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;
13Wherefore gird vp the loynes of your minde, bee sober, and hope †to the end, for the grace that is to bee brought vnto you at the reuelation of Iesus Christ:
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Job 7:6
Moving more rapidly; faster.
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One who weaves, especially one whose occupation is weaving.
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A weaver's tool that carries thread back and forth through the warp.
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1. Used, consumed, exhausted, or emptied. 2. Passed or drew toward its end, as time, a day, or life.
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Outside or on the exterior; beyond a boundary; lacking, absent, free from, not accompanied by, or apart from the person, thing, condition, means, or relation named.
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1. Expectation, trust, reliance, or the good expected. 2. The person or ground on which expectation rests. 3. To expect, look for, trust, or rely upon.
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5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
5My flesh is cloathed with wormes and clods of dust, my skinne is broken, and become loathsome.
6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
6*My dayes are swifter then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Selected passage7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
7O remember that my life is winde: mine eye †shall no more †see good.