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Job 17:7
7And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, 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 betrayeth friends for a prey — even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face. And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow. 8Upright men [shall be] astonished at this, and the innocent shall be stirred up against the ungodly; 9But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.
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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 through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors.
- Psalms 31:9Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am in trouble: mine eye wasteth away with vexation, my soul and my belly.
- Lamentations 5:17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,
- Job 17:11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, the cherished thoughts of my heart.
- Psalms 109:23I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust;
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell 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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