Job 7:6

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, etc.] Which moves very swiftly, being thrown quick and fast to and fro; some versions render it “a racer” f301 one that runs a race on foot, or rides on horseback, agreeably to (<180925>Job 9:25); where, and in (<180707>Job 7:7); to it, other similes are used, to set forth the swiftness and fleetness of man’s days; as they also are elsewhere represented, as swift as a tale told, a word expressed, or a thought conceived, (<199009>Psalm 90:9); and so here, by the Septuagint, are said to be “swifter than speech”, though wrongly translated: this is to be understood, not of his days of affliction, distress, and sorrow; for these in his apprehension…”

“(Isa 38:12). 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; Ch1 29:15).”

“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 than the speed with which a weaver throws his shuttle from one side of the web to the other. It would seem that such was the fact among the ancients, though the precise manner in which they wove their…”

“Swifter - The time of my life hastens to a period. Shuttle - Which passes in a moment from one end of the web to the other. Hope - Of enjoying any good day here. Job 7:7”

“7:6-21 Job cried out to God, complaining that life was too brief (7:6-10). This complaint contrasts ironically with his earlier desire that God end it all (6:9).”

“swifter: Job 9:25, Job 16:22, Job 17:11; Psa 90:5, Psa 90:6, Psa 102:11, Psa 103:15, Psa 103:16, Psa 144:4; Isa 38:12, Isa 38:13, Isa 40:6, Isa 40:7; Jam 1:11, Jam 4:14; Pe1 1:24 without hope: Job 6:11, Job 17:15; Pro 14:32; Jer 2:25; Eph 2:12; Pe1 1:13 Job 7:7”