John Gill's Exposition on Job 7:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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 moved but slowly, and he could have been, glad that they had gone on faster; but either his days in common, or particularly his days of prosperity and pleasure, these were soon over with him; and which he sometimes wished for again, (see <182901>Job 29:1-5); and are spent without hope; not without hope of happiness in another world, but without hope of being restored to his outward felicity in this; which Eliphaz had given him some him of, but he had no hope concerning it; (see <180524>Job 5:24-26 6:11,19 19:10).

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