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 · 2000Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
Context
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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