Job 17:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ My eye has grown dim from grief, and all my members are like a shadow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ My eye has grown dim because of grief, and all my members are [wasted away] like a shadow.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

Common English Bible

⁷ My eye is weak from grief; my limbs like a shadow—all of them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ My eyesight has been clouded by indignation, and my limbs have been reduced, as if to nothing.

Job 17:7 Cross References

Job 16:16

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

Psalm 6:7

My eyes waste away because of grief; they grow weak because of all my foes.

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our hearts are sick; because of these things our eyes have grown dim:

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?

Psalm 109:23

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

Job 16:8

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

Job 16:20

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

Job 7:5

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

Psalm 6:8

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