Job 17:7
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
In Context
6“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
8Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
Cross References
Job 16:8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
Psalms 6:7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
Psalms 31:9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like 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 →