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Modern King James verseion
My eye also is dim from grief; and all my members are 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all 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 has made me also a byword of the peoples; and I am one in whose face they spit. 7 My eye also is dim from grief; and all my members are like a shadow. 8 Upright ones shall be amazed at this, and the innocent shall stir himself up against the ungodly.
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Cross References
Job 16:16
My face is reddened from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Psalm 6:7
My eye is dim because of grief; it wastes away because of all my enemies.
Job 16:8
And You have plucked me, for it is a witness, and my failure rises up against me, and it answers to my face.
Psalm 31:9-10
Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has become old with grief, my soul and my belly.
Psalm 109:23
As a shadow when it is stretched out, I am gone; I am shaken off like the locust.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Lamentations 5:17
Our heart is faint for this; our eyes are dim for these things.