Job 17:7
Therefore is my eye dim from vexation, and my limbs are all of them like a shadow.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
In Context
6And he hath placed me here as a by-word unto nations; and I become openly as a place of abomination.
8Upright men must be astonished at this, and the innocent must arouse himself against the hypocrite.
Cross References
Job 16:8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, they are my witnesses; and my leanness riseth up for me, giveth its testimony to my face.
Psalms 6:7(6:8) My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all my assailants.
Psalms 31:9(31:10) Be gracious unto me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is consumed through vexation—my soul [too] and my body.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, the number of the days of his vain life, that he should spend them as a shadow? for who can tell a man what will 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 →