The Pulpit Commentary on Job 7:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. Though each day is a weariness, yet, on looking back upon my whole life, it seems to have come and gone in a moment (comp. Job 9:25). And are spent without hope.

Job does not share in the hopes which Eliphaz has held out (see Job 5:17-27). He has no hope but in death.

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