Holy Scripture
Job 7:6
A church father on this verse
“My days are past more swiftly than a web is cut off by the weaver. By a very suitable image the time of the flesh is compared to a web. For as the web advances by threads, so this mortal life by the several days; but in proportion as it grows to its bigness, it is advancing to its cutting off. For as we have also said…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6And my life is lighter than a word, And has perished in vain hope.
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4Whenever I lie down, I say, When will it be day? And whenever I rise up, again I say when will it be evening? And I am full of pains from evening to morning.
5And my body is covered with loathsome worms; And I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.
— Job 7:6 —
7Remember then that my life is breath, And mine eye shall not yet again see good.
8The eye of him that sees me shall not see me again: Thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.