English Standard Version
Job 17:7
7My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.
- New Living Translation (NLT)My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.
Context of Job 17:7
5He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail. 6"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit. My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow. 8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless. 9Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
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וַתֵּ֣כַהּ מִכַּ֣עַשׂ עֵינִ֑י וִֽיצֻרַ֖י כַּצֵּ֣ל כֻּלָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 17:7
- Job 16:16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,
- Psalms 6:7My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.
- Psalms 31:9Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.
- Lamentations 5:17For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
- Job 17:11My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.
- Psalms 109:23I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will 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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