Job 17:7
Good News Translation
My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.

New Revised Standard Version
My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.

Contemporary English Version
I am almost blind with grief; my body is a mere shadow.

New American Bible
My eyes are blind with anguish, and my whole frame is like a shadow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.

Mine eye

Job 16:16 My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.

Psalm 6:7 My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.

Psalm 31:9,10 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly: . . .

Lamentations 5:17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

members.

Job 17:11 My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.

shadow

Psalm 109:23 I am taken away like the shadow when it declineth: and I am shaken off as locusts.

Ecclesiastes 6:12 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?

Context
Job Prepares for Death
6He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them. 7My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.8The just shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall be raised up against the hypocrite.…
Cross References
Job 16:8
But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.

Job 16:16
My face is swollen with weeping, and my eyelids are dim.

Job 16:20
My friends are full of words: my eye poureth out tears to God.

Psalm 6:7
My eye is troubled through indignation: I have grown old amongst all my enemies.

Lamentations 5:17
Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

Job 17:6
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