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Job 17:7
Job 17:7 is verse 7 of Job chapter 17, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
King James Version
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
World English Bible
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
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Job 17:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.
9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 16:16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
Psalms 6:7My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
Psalms 31:9Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.
Psalms 31:10For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.
Lamentations 5:17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
Psalms 109:23I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?