American Standard Version
Job 17:7
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,And all my members are as a shadow.
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 that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face. Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow. 8Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless. 9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
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וַתֵּ֣כַהּ מִכַּ֣עַשׂ עֵינִ֑י וִֽיצֻרַ֖י כַּצֵּ֣ל כֻּלָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 17:7
- Job 16:16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- Psalms 6:7Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
- Psalms 31:9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea, my soul and my body.
- Lamentations 5:17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
- Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
- Psalms 109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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
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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
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