Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Job 17:7 in other translations
| BSB | My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow. |
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| WEB | My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow. |
| ASV | Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow. |
| YLT | And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them. |
| DARBY | And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow. |
| BBE | My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade. |
| Webster | My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shade. |
What does Job 17:7 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 17:1-9
Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of time, and to spend them in getting ready for eternity. We see the good use the righteous should make of Job's afflictions from God, from enemies, and from friends. Instead of being discouraged in the service of God, by the…
Job 17:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 17:7
- Psalms 6:7
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
- Job 16:16
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
- Psalms 31:9-10
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man in this 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?
- Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
- Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
- Job 16:8
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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Context
- Job 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
- Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
- Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job 17:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y mis ojos se oscurecieron de desabrimiento, y mis pensamientos todos son como sombra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mon œil est terni par le chagrin, et mes membres sont tous comme une ombre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und mein Auge ist trübe geworden vor Gram, und wie der Schatten sind alle meine Glieder. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Caligavit ab indignatione oculus meus, et membra mea quasi in nihilum redacta sunt. |