Job 17:7

What does Job 17:7 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 17:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

v.7This passage

v.8Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 6:12

    For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • Psalms 109:23

    I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

  • Psalms 6:7

    Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

  • Job 16:8

    And thou hast laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

  • Lamentations 5:17

    For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

  • Psalms 31:9

    Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea, my soul and my body.

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