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Job 7:6

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My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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  1. Job 9:25Rank 1 from verse 6
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    25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

  2. Job 17:15Rank 2 from verse 6
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    15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

  3. Job 17:11Rank 3 from verse 6
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    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

  4. 1 Peter 1:24Rank 4 from verse 6
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    24For 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:

  5. Isaiah 38:12–13Rank 5 from verse 6
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    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.

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Job 7:6

COMBINED MEANING

weaver

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One who weaves, especially one whose occupation is weaving.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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shuttle

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A weaver's tool that carries thread back and forth through the warp.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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spent

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1. Used, consumed, exhausted, or emptied. 2. Passed or drew toward its end, as time, a day, or life.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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without

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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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hope

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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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7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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7:7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

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