Job 17:7

King James 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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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 16:16 : 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Ps 6:7 : 7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
Ps 31:9-9 : 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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 this 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 filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 6:7
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7Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
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15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
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