7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. …
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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…
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