Job 17:7
My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
8The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.
Cross References
Job 16:8But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.
Psalms 6:7I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.
Psalms 31:9And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.
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 →