Job 17:7 “My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.”

Job 17:7

My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

World English Bible

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

American Standard Version

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

Geneva Bible 1599

Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.

Darby Translation

And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.

Young's Literal Translation

And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

Bible in Basic English

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

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Cross references

“Mine eye”

Job 16:16 Psalm 6:7 Lamentations 5:17 Psalm 31:9 Psalm 31:10

Job 16:16 · BSB

My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

Psalm 6:7 · BSB

My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

Lamentations 5:17 · BSB

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

Psalm 31:9 · BSB

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

Psalm 31:10 · BSB

For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

“shadow”

Psalm 109:23 Ecclesiastes 6:12

Psalm 109:23 · BSB

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

Ecclesiastes 6:12 · BSB

For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

Also

Job 16:8

Job 16:8 · BSB

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

8The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

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