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# General Information:
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The writer continues to use parallelism in 7:6-7 to emphasize Job's sense of the shortness of life. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism]])
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# My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle
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Job compares his lifetime to the quickness of a weaver's shuttle. Alternate translation: "My life goes by very quickly" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-simile]])
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# weaver
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a person who makes cloth by crossing threads or yarn
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# a weaver's shuttle
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a moving part that carries thread or yarn back and forth quickly in a loom when making cloth
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