Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them.
New American Standard Bible
And all my
King James Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Holman Bible
and my whole body has become but a shadow.
International Standard Version
My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow.
A Conservative Version
My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
American Standard Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
Amplified
“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,
And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.
Bible in Basic English
My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
Darby Translation
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
King James 2000
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.
Modern King James verseion
My eye also is dim from grief; and all my members are like a shadow.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mine eye is dim for very heaviness, and all my strength is become like a shadow.
NET Bible
My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
New Heart English Bible
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.
Webster
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shade.
World English Bible
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
Youngs Literal Translation
And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 17:7
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Context Readings
Job Says To His Friends: I'M Still Wiser Than You
6 He set me for a parable of the peoples, and I shall be one spit upon to the face. 7 And mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them. 8 The upright shall be astonished upon this, and the innocent Shall arouse himself against the profane.
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Cross References
Job 16:16
My face became red from weeping, and upon my eye-lashes the shadow of death
Psalm 6:7
Mine eye fell away from grief; it grew old among all mine enemies.
Job 16:8
Thou wilt lay fast hold on me to be for a testimony, and my leanness will rise up in me; it will answer against my face.
Psalm 31:9-10
Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly.
Psalm 109:23
As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart was languid; for this our eyes were darkened.