Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them.
King James 2000
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are 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 "And he has made me a proverb for [the] peoples, {and I am one before whom people spit}. 7 And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow. 8 [The] upright are appalled at this, and [the] innocent excites himself over [the] godless.
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Cross References
Job 16:16
My face is red because of weeping, and deep shadows [are] on my eyelids,
Psalm 6:7
My eye wastes away because of vexation; it grows old because of all my oppressors.
Job 16:8
Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.
Psalm 31:9-10
Be gracious [to] me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, [along with] my soul and my {body}.
Psalm 109:23
Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what [is] good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future} under the sun?
Lamentations 5:17
Because of this, our heart has become faint, because of these, our eyes have become dim.