JOB 7:6 Parallel View

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OET (OET-RV) In the past the days flew by faster than a weaver’s shuttle,
 ⇔ but now they’ve come to an end without any hope.

Key: yellow:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST I am running out of days faster than a shuttle releases yarn into a loom,
⇔ and I have no reason to hope that my life will end well.

BSB My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle;
⇔ they come to an end without hope.

OEB My days are more swift than a shuttle;
⇔ They come to an end without hope.

WEB My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
⇔ and are spent without hope.

NET My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle
 ⇔ and they come to an end without hope.

LSV My days swifter than a loom,
And they are consumed without hope.

FBV My days pass quicker than a weaver's shuttle[fn] and they come to an end without hope.

7:6 The image is of a weaver working on a loom, whipping the shuttle from side to side.

T4T  ⇔ My days pass as quickly as a weaver’s ◄shuttle/stick that takes the thread back and forth►,
⇔ and they end without my confidently expecting that things will be better the next day.

LEB • and they come to an end[fn]

?:? Literally “with nothing hope”

BBE My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

MOF No MOF JOB book available

JPS My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

ASV My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
 ⇔ And are spent without hope.

DRA My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

YLT My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

DBY My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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

WBS My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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

BB My dayes passe ouer more spedyly then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.
(My days pass over more spedyly then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.)

GNV My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
(My days are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope. )

CB my dayes passe ouer more spedely, the a weeuer can weeue out his webbe, and are gone, or I am awarre.
(my days pass over more spedely, the a weeuer can weeue out his webbe, and are gone, or I am awarre.)

WYC My daies passiden swiftliere thanne a web is kit doun `of a webstere; and tho daies ben wastid with outen ony hope.
(My days passed swiftliere then a web is kit down `of a webstere; and tho days been wastid without any hope.)

LUT Meine Tage sind leichter dahingeflogen denn eine Weberspule und sind vergangen, daß kein Aufhalten dagewesen ist.
(My days are leichter dahingeflogen because one Weberspule and are vergangen, that kein Aufhalten dagewesen is.)

CLV Dies mei velocius transierunt quam a texente tela succiditur, et consumpti sunt absque ulla spe.[fn]
(The_day my/mine velocius transierunt how a texente tela succiditur, and consumpti are without ulla spe.)

7.6 Dies mei velocius. Sicut tela filis, sic vita diebus singulis proficit: sed quo magis crescit, ad incisionem tendit. Sed et telæ festinantiam velocitas vitæ transit, quæ semper deficit. Et ideo electi cor non in ea figunt, unde ait: Et consumpti sunt, id est, nullam mihi fiduciam pono in his: quod faciunt reprobi, ego non.

7.6 The_day my/mine velocius. Sicut tela filis, so vita days singulis proficit: but quo magis crescit, to incisionem tendit. Sed and telæ festinantiam velocitas of_life transit, which semper deficit. And ideo electi heart not/no in ea figunt, whence ait: And consumpti are, id it_is, nullam mihi fiduciam pono in his: that faciunt reprobi, I non.

BRN And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

BrLXX Ὁ δὲ βίος μου ἔστιν ἐλαφρότερος λαλιᾶς, ἀπόλωλε δὲ ἐν κενῇ ἐλπίδι.
(Ho de bios mou estin elafroteros lalias, apolōle de en kenaʸ elpidi. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

יָמַ֣⁠י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי־אָ֑רֶג

days,my swifter than weaver's_shuttle

Job his comparing his days to a shuttle, which stores and releases a supply of yearn for weavers, to say how quickly his days are going by. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this point explicitly. The UST models one way to do this.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

יָמַ֣⁠י קַ֭לּוּ

days,my swifter

Job is using the term days to refer to a specific time, the time that he will live on earth. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “My life is ending more quickly”

Note 3 topic: translate-unknown

אָ֑רֶג

weaver's_shuttle

A shuttle is a wooden tool that weavers use when weaving to store and unravel yarn while passing it back and forth through other threads of yarn mounted on a loom. If your readers would not be familiar with what a shuttle is, in your translation you could use the name of a comparable object in your culture, or you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: “a tool for weaving” or “a tool for making cloth quickly”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

וַ֝⁠יִּכְל֗וּ בְּ⁠אֶ֣פֶס תִּקְוָֽה

and,come_to_an_end in/on/at/with,no hope

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of hope, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “and I cannot hope that my life will be good in the end”

Parallel JOB 7:6