New International Version
Job 17:7
7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but 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.
- 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.
- 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
5If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail. 6“God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit. My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow. 8The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly. 9Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow 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, dark shadows ring my eyes;
- Psalms 6:7My eyes grow weak with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.
- Psalms 31:9Be merciful to me, Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief.
- Lamentations 5:17Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
- Job 17:11My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart
- Psalms 109:23I fade away like an evening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
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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