Job 17:7

Job 17:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
• New International Version (NIV)My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
• English Standard Version (ESV)My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
• New King James Version (NKJV)My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.

Context of Job 17:7

5He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children will also languish and fail. 6“But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people, And I have become one in whose face people spit. My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief, And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow. 8The upright will be [astonished and] appalled at this, And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless and polluted. 9Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Job 17:7 word by word

וַתֵּ֣כַהּ מִכַּ֣עַשׂ עֵינִ֑י וִֽיצֻרַ֖י כַּצֵּ֣ל כֻּלָּֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Mine eyeעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• also is dimכָּהָהkâhâh · to grow dimH3543
• by reason of sorrowכַּ֫עַשׂka‛as ka‛aώ · vexationH3708
• and all my membersיְצֻרִיםyâtsûr · memberH3338
• as a shadowצֵלtsêl · shadowH6738

Cross-references for Job 17:7

• Job 16:16My face is red and swollen with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],
• Psalms 6:7My eye grows dim with grief; It grows old because of all my enemies.
• Psalms 31:9Be gracious and compassionate to me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; My eye is clouded and weakened by grief, my soul and my body also.
• Lamentations 5:17Because of this our heart is faint, Because of these things our eyes are dim.
• Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes and plans are frustrated and torn apart; The wishes of my heart [are broken].
• Psalms 109:23I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades; I am shaken off like the locust.
• Ecclesiastes 6:12For who [limited by human wisdom] knows what is good for man during his lifetime, during the few days of his futile life? He spends them like a shadow [staying busy, but achieving nothing of lasting value]. For who can tell a man what will happen after him [to his work, his treasure, his plans] under the sun [after his life is over]?

Commentaries on Job 17:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Mine eye also is dim - Continual weeping impairs the sight; and indeed any affliction that debilitates the frame generally weakens the sight in the same proportion. All my members are as a shadow - Nothing is left but skin and bone. I am but the shadow of my former self.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Mine eye is dim by reason of sorrow - Schultens supposes that this refers to his external appearance in general, as being worn down, exhausted, “defaced” by his many troubles; but it seems rather to mean that his eyes failed on account of weeping. And all my members are as a shadow - “I am a mere skeleton, I am exhausted and emaciated by my sufferings.” It is common to speak of persons who are emaciated by sickness or famine as mere shadows. Thus, Livy…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. (Psa 6:7; 31:9; De 34:7). members--literally, "figures"; all the individual members being peculiar forms of the body; opposed to "shadow," which looks like a figure without solidity.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 17:7

• Afflictions and Adversities

In the dictionaries

• Extinct
• Hold
• Eye

Commentaries on Job 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings