Job 17:7
And my eye is dim from sorrow, || And my members—all of them—as a shadow.
Literal Standard 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
6And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, || And I am a wonder before them.
8The upright are astonished at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the profane.
Cross References
Job 16:8And You loathe me, || For it has been a witness, || And my failure rises up against me, || It testifies in my face.
Psalms 6:7My eye is old from provocation, || It is old because of all my adversaries,
Psalms 31:9Favor me, O YHWH, for distress [is] to me, || My eye, my soul, and my body || Have become old by provocation.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what [is] good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he makes them as a shadow? For who declares to man what is 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 →