Job 17:7
My eyesight has been clouded by indignation, and my limbs have been reduced, as if to nothing.
Catholic Public Domain 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
6He has posted me like a proverb to the people, and I am an example in their presence.
8The just will be astounded over this, and the innocent will be stirred up against the hypocrite.
Cross References
Job 16:8But now my grief has crushed me, and all my limbs have been reduced to nothing.
Psalms 6:7I have labored in my groaning. Every night, with my tears, I will wash my bed and drench my blanket.
Psalms 31:9Do not become like the horse and the mule, which have no understanding. Their jaws are constrained with bit and bridle, so as not to draw near to you.
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 →