The Web of Life
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.


A Christian man's life is laid in the loom of time to a pattern which he does not see, but God does: and his heart is a shuttle. On one side of the loom is sorrow, and on the other joy; and the shuttle, struck alternately by each, flies back and forth, carrying the thread, which is white or black as the pattern needs. And in the end, when God shall lift up the finished garment and all its changing hues shall glance out, it will then appear that the deep and dark colours were as needful to beauty as the bright and high colours.

(H. W. Beecher.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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




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