Job 17:7
For my eyes are dimmed through pain; 1 I have been grievously beset by all. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 thou hast made me a byword among the nations, 1 And I am become a scorn to them. 1
8Wonder has seized true men upon this; 1 And let the just rise up against the transgressor. 1
Cross References
Job 16:8My falsehood has become a testimony, 1 And has risen up against me: 1 It has confronted me to my face. 1
Psalms 6:7I am wearied with my groaning; 1 I shall wash my bed every night; 1 I shall water my couch with my tears. 1
Psalms 31:9Be ye not as horse and mule, which have no understanding: 1 But thou must constrain their jaws with bit and curb, 1 Lest they should come nigh to thee. 1
Ecclesiastes 6:12What advantage has a man? 1 For who knows what is good for a man in his life, 1 During the number of the life of the days of his vanity? 1 And he has spent them as a shadow; 1 For who shall tell a man 1 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 →