A rare verb meaning to pass swiftly, move quickly by, or cut off. It is used poetically to describe the fleeting passage of time — life that passes like a weaver's shuttle, days that fly by, moments cut short.
Guz captures the velocity of human life. Psalm 90:10 uses a related imagery: 'our years are soon gone' — the word group portrays a life that moves across the stage of history and is quickly past. Job uses similar language for the speed of his suffering days. The theological message is consistent: life is brief. Moses' prayer in Psalm 90 — 'the years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty, yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away' — is the counterpoint to God's eternal existence. Our fleeting guz is held within His everlasting arms. Urgency and trust are the twin responses.