the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Job 17:7
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My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
My sight has grown weak because of my sadness, and my body is as thin as a shadow.
My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shade.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
"My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief, And all my [body's] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.
My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.
Myn `iye dasewide at indignacioun; and my membris ben dryuun as in to nouyt.
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
I am almost blind with grief; my body is a mere shadow.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
I am nearly blind with grief, my limbs reduced to a shadow.
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
My eyes are almost blind from my grief. My whole body is as thin as a shadow.
Mine eye also is dimmed by reason of vexation, and all my members are as a shadow.
Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
My eyes have become weak with sorrow. All the parts of my body are like a shadow.
My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
My eye is dim because of anger, and all my senses are like a shadow.
My grief has almost made me blind; my arms and legs are as thin as shadows.
Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.
Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe.
For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.
My eyes have grown dim from grief,and my whole body has become but a shadow.
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow.
And my eye is dim from grief; and all my members are like a shadow.
And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
My countenaunce is heuy for very anger, & the membres of my body are become like a shadowe.
"My eye has also become inexpressive because of grief, And all my body parts are like a shadow.
My eye has also grown dim because of sorrow, And all my members are like shadows.
"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.
My eye has also grown dim because of grief,And all my members are as a shadow.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Mine eye: Job 16:16, Psalms 6:7, Psalms 31:9, Psalms 31:10, Lamentations 5:17
members: or, thoughts, Job 17:11
shadow: Psalms 109:23, Ecclesiastes 6:12
Reciprocal: Psalms 88:9 - Mine
Cross-References
In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow,.... Through excessive weeping, and the abundance of tears he shed, so that he had almost lost his eyesight, or however it was greatly weakened and impaired by that means, which is often the case, see Psalms 6:7;
and all my members [are] as a shadow; his flesh was consumed off his bones, there were nothing left scarcely but skin and bone; he was a mere anatomy, and as thin as a lath, as we commonly say of a man that is quite worn away, as it were; is a walking shadow, has scarce any substance in him, but is the mere shadow of a man; the Targum interprets it of his form, splendour, and countenance, which were like a shadow; some interpret it "my thoughts" t, and understand it of the formations of his mind, and not of his body, which were shadows, empty, fleeting, and having no consistence in them through that sorrow that possessed him.
t יצרי "cogitationes meae", Pagninus, Bolducius, Codurcus, so Ben Gersom.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Mine eye is dim by reason of sorrow - Schultens supposes that this refers to his external appearance in general, as being worn down, exhausted, “defaced” by his many troubles; but it seems rather to mean that his eyes failed on account of weeping.
And all my members are as a shadow - “I am a mere skeleton, I am exhausted and emaciated by my sufferings.” It is common to speak of persons who are emaciated by sickness or famine as mere shadows. Thus, Livy (L. 21:40) says, Effigies, imo, “umbrce hominum;” fame, frigore, illuvie, squalore enecti, contusi, debilitati inter saxa rupesque. So Aeschylus calls Oedipus - Οἰδίπου σκιαν Oidipou skian - the shadow of Oedipus.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 17:7. Mine eye also is dim — Continual weeping impairs the sight; and indeed any affliction that debilitates the frame generally weakens the sight in the same proportion.
All my members are as a shadow. — Nothing is left but skin and bone. I am but the shadow of my former self.
