Job 17:7

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

Mine eye {H5869} also is dim {H3543} by reason of sorrow {H3708}, and all my members {H3338} are as a shadow {H6738}.

I am nearly blind with grief, my limbs reduced to a shadow.

My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

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

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Cross-References

  • Job 16:16 (4 votes)

    My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;

  • Psalms 31:9 (3 votes)

    ¶ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

  • Psalms 31:10 (3 votes)

    For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Psalms 6:7 (3 votes)

    Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

  • Lamentations 5:17 (2 votes)

    ¶ For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.

  • Psalms 109:23 (2 votes)

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

  • Job 16:8 (2 votes)

    And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.