Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of ka'as, 1 and all my members are like a tzel (shadow). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 also a mashal (byword) of the peoples; 1 and I am one in whose face they spit. 1
Cross References
Job 16:8And Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, 1 which is an ed (witness) against me; 1 and my leanness rising up in me 1 beareth witness to my face. 1
Psalms 6:7I am weary with my groaning; 1 all the lailah flood I my mittah with weeping; 1 I water my couch with my tears. 1
Psalms 31:9And hast not shut me up into the yad of the oyev (enemy); 1 Thou hast set my feet in a merkhav 1 (large place, spacious or broad place). 1
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who has da'as what is tov for adam in this life, all the few days of his chayyei hevel which he spendeth as a shadow? For who can tell adam what shall be after him under the shemesh?
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 →