Job 17:7 · KJV
“Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members {are} as a shadow. {my members: or, my thoughts}”
— Job 17:7
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
Upright {men} shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
Job 17 — Context
He that speaketh flattery to {his} friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. {aforetime: or, before them}
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members {are} as a shadow. {my members: or, my thoughts}
8Upright {men} shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. {be...: Heb. add strength}
Cross References
Job 16:16
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids {is} the shadow of death;
Psalms 6:7
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Psalms 31:9-10
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, {yea}, my soul and my belly.
Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what {is} good for man in {this} 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? {all...: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity}
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these {things} our eyes are dim.
Job 16:8
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.