Job 17:7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

◄ Job 17:7 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

English Standard Version
My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.

New American Standard Bible
"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.

King James Bible
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My eyes have grown dim from grief, and my whole body has become but a shadow.

International Standard Version
My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow.

American Standard Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

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

Darby Bible Translation
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.

Young's Literal Translation
And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

17:1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of time, and to spend them in getting ready for eternity. We see the good use the righteous should make of Job's afflictions from God, from enemies, and from friends. Instead of being discouraged in the service of God, by the hard usage this faithful servant of God met with, they should be made bold to proceed and persevere therein. Those who keep their eye upon heaven as their end, will keep their feet in the paths of religion as their way, whatever difficulties and discouragements they may meet with.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. (Ps 6:7; 31:9; De 34:7).

members—literally, "figures"; all the individual members being peculiar forms of the body; opposed to "shadow," which looks like a figure without solidity.