Job 17:7
My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
In Context
6But he has made me a byword of the people, and they spit in my face.
8Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the profane.
Cross References
Job 16:8And thou have laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
Psalms 6:7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Psalms 31:9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Matthew Henry on Job 17:2-10
Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? 3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. 5 He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6 He hath made me… Read the whole commentary →