Job 17:7

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:16 : 16 My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
  • Ps 6:7 : 7 Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
  • Ps 31:9-9 : 9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body. 10 For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
  • Lam 5:17 : 17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
  • Job 16:8 : 8 And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me] : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

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    7Mine eye wasteth away because of grief; It waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.

  • Job 16:15-16
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    81%

    15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

    16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • Ps 31:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

    11Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

  • Ps 38:10
    78%

    10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • Job 17:6
    78%

    6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

  • Job 7:6-8
    3 verses
    78%

    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

    7Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.

    8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

  • Ps 102:11
    77%

    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

  • Lam 5:17
    76%

    17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

  • Ps 38:17
    76%

    17For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

  • Job 16:20
    75%

    20My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

  • Ps 88:9
    75%

    9Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • Lam 3:51
    75%

    51Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

  • Job 16:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

    8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me] : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

  • Lam 1:16
    75%

    16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

  • Ps 38:6
    75%

    6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • Job 17:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

    12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

    13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

  • Jer 8:18
    74%

    18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • Job 17:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

    2Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

  • Lam 1:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

    20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

    21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before thee; And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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    16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

  • Isa 38:12
    73%

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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    73%

    31Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.

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    2 verses
    73%

    12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Lam 3:4
    73%

    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • Isa 38:15
    73%

    15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

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    4Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

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    73%

    82Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?

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    73%

    21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:

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    5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

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    73%

    6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Job 7:3
    72%

    3So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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    72%

    49Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

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    3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.