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Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Mine eye is dim for very heaviness, and all my strength is become 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 King James verseion
My eye also is dim from grief; and all my members are 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 hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them. 7 Mine eye is dim for very heaviness, and all my strength is become like a shadow. 8 Virtuous men therefore shall well consider this, and the innocent shall take part against the hypocrite.
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Cross References
Job 16:16
My face is swollen with weeping, and mine eyes are waxen dim.
Psalm 6:7
My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies.
Job 16:8
And that thou hast filled me with wrinkles, my flesh is witness; and my leanness riseth up against me and beareth witness thereof in my face.
Psalm 31:9-10
Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble, and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness, yea my soul and my body.
Psalm 109:23
I go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man living, in the days of his vain life, which is but a shadow? Or, who will tell a man what shall happen after him under the Sun?
Lamentations 5:17
Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim: