Job 17:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

My eye has grown dim because of grief, and all my members are [wasted away] like a shadow.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

My eye is weak from grief; my limbs like a shadow—all of them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

My eyesight has been clouded by indignation, and my limbs have been reduced, as if to nothing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 17:7 Cross References

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness;

Job 16:20

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

Job 16:8

And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.

Psalm 109:23

I am gone, like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.

Psalm 6:7

My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.

Psalm 6:8

Depart from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?

Lamentations 5:17

For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,