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Job 17:7
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My eyes have grown dim from grief,and my whole body has become but a shadow.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
My sight has grown weak because of my sadness, and my body is as thin as a shadow.
My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
"My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief, And all my [body's] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.
"My eye has also become inexpressive because of grief, And all my body parts are like a shadow.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
My eye has also grown dim because of grief,And all my members are as a shadow.
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
I am almost blind with grief; my body is a mere shadow.
I am nearly blind with grief, my limbs reduced to a shadow.
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
My eyes are almost blind from my grief. My whole body is as thin as a shadow.
My eye is dim because of anger, and all my senses are like a shadow.
My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.
And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow.
And my eye is dim from grief; and all my members are like a shadow.
My countenaunce is heuy for very anger, & the membres of my body are become like a shadowe.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe.
For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Myn `iye dasewide at indignacioun; and my membris ben dryuun as in to nouyt.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shade.
My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.
My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.
My eyes have become weak with sorrow. All the parts of my body are like a shadow.
My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
Contextual Overview
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
In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.
I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.
And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.
In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.
And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.
Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.
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.
