Spinning and weaving

Spinning as the process of making thread

Proverbs 31:19; Matthew 6:28 parallel Luke 12:27

Weaving as the process of making cloth

Exodus 28:39

Weavers and spinners

Isaiah 19:9 See also Exodus 35:25, Exodus 35:35, Exodus 39:22, Exodus 39:27; 2 Kings 23:7

The workers in flax will be dismayed, and the weavers of fine linen will turn pale.

The figurative use of spinning and weaving

Job 7:6; Isaiah 38:12 See also Judges 16:13; 1 Samuel 17:7; Isaiah 59:5

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.