Job 17:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 17:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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. …
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Psalms 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Job’s discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:— I. The deplorable condition which poor Job was now in, which he describes, to aggravate the great unkindness of his friends to him and to justify his own complaints. Let us see what his case was. 1. He was a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. (Psa 6:7; 31:9; De 34:7). members--literally, “figures”; all the individual members being peculiar forms of the body; opposed to “shadow,” which looks like a figure without solidity.