Job 17:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתֵּ֣כַהּ מִכַּ֣עַשׂ עֵינִ֑י וִֽיצֻרַ֖י כַּצֵּ֣ל כֻּלָּֽם׃

Transliteration

wa-ttēḵah from-kaʿaś ʿênî wîṣuray like-the-ṣēl all-of-them

Grammar Details

*wa-ttēḵah*: conjunction + Qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - and it grows dim
*kaʿaś*: noun, masculine singular - vexation/grief/anger
*ʿênî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my eye
*wîṣuray*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - and my limbs/members
*ṣēl*: noun, masculine singular - shadow

Word Meanings

*wa-ttēḵah*: and it grows dim/becomes dark/fails
*kaʿaś*: vexation/grief/irritation/anger
*ʿênî*: my eye/sight (metaphorically: perception)
*wîṣuray*: and my limbs/members/forms/frame
*ṣēl*: shadow/shade/darkness

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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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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