# General Information:

The writer continues to use parallelism in each of these verses, conveying a single idea using two different statements to emphasize Job's sense of the shortness of life. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])

# My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle

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/translate/figs-simile]])

# weaver

a person who makes cloth by crossing threads or yarn

# a weaver's shuttle

a moving part that carries thread or yarn back and forth quickly in a loom when making cloth