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Job 17:7

"My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief, And all my [body's] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Eye, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eye;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My eyes have grown dim from grief,and my whole body has become but a shadow.
Hebrew Names Version
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
King James Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
English Standard Version
My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
New Century Version
My sight has grown weak because of my sadness, and my body is as thin as a shadow.
New English Translation
My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
New American Standard Bible
"My eye has also become inexpressive because of grief, And all my body parts are like a shadow.
World English Bible
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
Legacy Standard Bible
My eye has also grown dim because of grief,And all my members are as a shadow.
Berean Standard Bible
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
Contemporary English Version
I am almost blind with grief; my body is a mere shadow.
Complete Jewish Bible
I am nearly blind with grief, my limbs reduced to a shadow.
Darby Translation
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
Easy-to-Read Version
My eyes are almost blind from my grief. My whole body is as thin as a shadow.
George Lamsa Translation
My eye is dim because of anger, and all my senses are like a shadow.
Good News Translation
My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.
Lexham English Bible
And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow.
Literal Translation
And my eye is dim from grief; and all my members are like a shadow.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My countenaunce is heuy for very anger, & the membres of my body are become like a shadowe.
American Standard Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Bible in Basic English
My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
King James Version (1611)
Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.
English Revised Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Myn `iye dasewide at indignacioun; and my membris ben dryuun as in to nouyt.
Update Bible Version
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Webster's Bible Translation
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shade.
New King James Version
My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.
New Living Translation
My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.
New Life Bible
My eyes have become weak with sorrow. All the parts of my body are like a shadow.
New Revised Standard
My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
Revised Standard Version
My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
Young's Literal Translation
And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.

Contextual Overview

1"My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, The grave is ready for me. 2"Surely there are mockers and mockery with me, And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation. 3"Give me a pledge (guarantee, promise) with Yourself [acknowledge my innocence before my death]; Who is there that will be my guarantor and give security for me? 4"But You [Lord] have closed their hearts to understanding, Therefore You will not exalt them [by giving a verdict against me]. 5"He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children will also languish and fail. 6"But He has made me a byword and mockery among the people, And I have become one in whose face people spit. 7"My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief, And all my [body's] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.8"The upright will be [astonished and] appalled at this, And the innocent will stir himself up against the godless and polluted. 9"Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways, And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mine eye: Job 16:16, Psalms 6:7, Psalms 31:9, Psalms 31:10, Lamentations 5:17

members: or, thoughts, Job 17:11

shadow: Psalms 109:23, Ecclesiastes 6:12

Reciprocal: Psalms 88:9 - Mine

Cross-References

Genesis 15:18
On the same day the LORD made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates—
Genesis 17:5
"No longer shall your name be Abram (exalted father), But your name shall be Abraham (father of a multitude); For I will make you the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:6
"I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.
Genesis 17:7
"I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:8
"I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger [moving from place to place], all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession [of property]; and I will be their God."
Genesis 17:9
Further, God said to Abraham, "As for you [your part of the agreement], you shall keep and faithfully obey [the terms of] My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
Genesis 17:11
"And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be the sign (symbol, memorial) of the covenant between Me and you.
Genesis 17:16
"I will bless her, and indeed I will also give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
Genesis 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the LORD stood above and around him and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your [father's] father and the God of Isaac; I will give to you and to your descendants the land [of promise] on which you are lying.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,.... Through excessive weeping, and the abundance of tears he shed, so that he had almost lost his eyesight, or however it was greatly weakened and impaired by that means, which is often the case, see Psalms 6:7;

and all my members [are] as a shadow; his flesh was consumed off his bones, there were nothing left scarcely but skin and bone; he was a mere anatomy, and as thin as a lath, as we commonly say of a man that is quite worn away, as it were; is a walking shadow, has scarce any substance in him, but is the mere shadow of a man; the Targum interprets it of his form, splendour, and countenance, which were like a shadow; some interpret it "my thoughts" t, and understand it of the formations of his mind, and not of his body, which were shadows, empty, fleeting, and having no consistence in them through that sorrow that possessed him.

t יצרי "cogitationes meae", Pagninus, Bolducius, Codurcus, so Ben Gersom.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Mine 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 (L. 21:40) says, Effigies, imo, “umbrce hominum;” fame, frigore, illuvie, squalore enecti, contusi, debilitati inter saxa rupesque. So Aeschylus calls Oedipus - Οἰδίπου σκιαν Oidipou skian - the shadow of Oedipus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 17:7. Mine 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.


 
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