A weaver's shuttle

Job, in his reply to Eliphaz, describes his nightly misery, familiar to many of us:

"When I lie down...I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day." (Job 7:4)

 And further Job sharpens his very accurate descriptions of life as a human:

"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope." (Job 7:6)

 Consider the beautiful weaver's shuttle and the beauty it assists in producing at the very hands of the suffering human.


Illustration of weaver's shuttles from Wikimedia Commons, Väv, Skyttlar.