Job 17:7
Strong's Lexicon
My eyes
עֵינִ֑י (‘ê·nî)
Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.) 2) spring, fountain

have grown dim
וַתֵּ֣כַהּ (wat·tê·ḵah)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3543: 1) to grow weak, grow dim, grow faint, falter, be weak, be dim, be darkened, be restrained, be faint, fail 1a) (Qal) to grow dim, grow faint 1b) (Piel) to faint, grow weak, grow faint

with grief,
מִכַּ֣עַשׂ (mik·ka·‘aś)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3708: 1) anger, vexation, provocation, grief 1a) vexation 1a1) of men 1a2) of God 1b) vexation, grief, frustration

and my whole
כֻּלָּֽם׃ (kul·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3605: 1) all, the whole 1a) all, the whole of 1b) any, each, every, anything 1c) totality, everything

body
וִֽיצֻרַ֖י (wî·ṣu·ray)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3338: 1) forms, members (of the body)

is but a shadow.
כַּצֵּ֣ל (kaṣ·ṣêl)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6738: 1) shadow, shade 1a) shadow (on dial) 1b) shadow, shade (as protection) 1c) shadow (symbolic of transitoriness of life)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

Young's Literal Translation
And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My eyes have grown dim from  grief, and my whole body has become but a shadow.

New American Standard Bible
"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.

King James Bible
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

New Living Translation
My eyes are swollen with weeping, and I am but a shadow of my former self.

English Standard Version
My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.

New American Standard Bible
"My eye has also grown dim because of grief, And all my members are as a shadow.

King James Bible
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My eyes have grown dim from grief, 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.

NET Bible
My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

American Standard Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

English Revised Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

Young's Literal Translation
And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.
















Cross References
Job 16:8
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

Job 16:16
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Job 16:20
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Psalm 6:7
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 17:6
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Job 17:5
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Job 17:4
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

Job 17:9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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