My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. Treasury of Scripture Mine eye Job 16:16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Psalm 6:7 My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxes old because of all my enemies. Psalm 31:9,10 Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly... Lamentations 5:17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. members. or, thoughts Job 17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. shadow Psalm 109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the locust. Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow?...
Context Job Appeals From Men to God
1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. 2Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their provocation? 3Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike hands with me? 4For you have hid their heart from understanding: therefore shall you not exalt them. 5He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. 6He has made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. 7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. 8Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite. 9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. 10But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. 12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. 13If I wait, the grave is my house: I have made my bed in the darkness. 14I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister. 15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? 16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Douay-Rheims Bible
My eye is dim through indignation, and my limbs are brought as it were to nothing.
Darby Bible Translation
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
King James Bible
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Young's Literal Translation
And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
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