John Gill Commentary Job 7:6

"My days are swifter than a weaver`s shuttle, And are spent without hope." — Job 7:6 (ASV)

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle
Which moves very swiftly, being thrown quick and fast to and fro; some versions render it "a racer" ^F2 one that runs a race on foot, or rides on horseback, agreeably to (Job 9:25); where, and in (Job 7:7); 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, (Psalms 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 (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 hint of, but he had no hope concerning it; see (Job 5:24–26) (Job 6:11Job 6:19) (19:10).

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FOOTNOTES:

• F2: (dromewv) , Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion in Drusius.