Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

New American Standard Bible

My eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.

King James Version

Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Holman Bible

My eyes are swollen from grief;
they grow old because of all my enemies.

International Standard Version

My eyesight has faded because of grief, it has dimmed because of all my enemies.

A Conservative Version

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

American Standard Version

Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

Amplified


My eye grows dim with grief;
It grows old because of all my enemies.

Darby Translation

Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors.

Julia Smith Translation

Mine eye fell away from grief; it grew old among all mine enemies.

King James 2000

My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

Lexham Expanded Bible

My eye wastes away because of vexation; it grows old because of all my oppressors.

Modern King James verseion

My eye is dim because of grief; it wastes away because of all my enemies.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies.

NET Bible

My eyes grow dim from suffering; they grow weak because of all my enemies.

New Heart English Bible

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

The Emphasized Bible

My face, is all sunken with sorrow, - it hath aged, because of all mine adversaries.

Webster

My eye is consumed because of grief; it groweth old because of all my enemies.

World English Bible

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Youngs Literal Translation

Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,

References

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

A Prayer For Mercy

6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes. 7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me. 8 Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

Cross References

Job 17:7

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

Psalm 88:9

My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

Psalm 31:9-10

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

Psalm 32:3

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

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