Job 17:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:16 : 16 My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
  • Ps 6:7 : 7 My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.
  • Ps 31:9-9 : 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am gone like a shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down like the locust.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will 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 You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 6:7
    83%

    7My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

  • Job 16:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.

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

  • Ps 31:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

    11I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintances: those who saw me outside fled from me.

  • Ps 38:10
    78%

    10My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

  • Job 17:6
    78%

    6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

  • 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; my eye shall see good no more.

    8The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not.

  • Ps 102:11
    77%

    11My days are like a shadow that declines, 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 scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

  • Ps 88:9
    75%

    9My eye mourns by reason of affliction; LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands to you.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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

  • Lam 3:51
    75%

    51My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

  • Job 16:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.

    8You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

  • Lam 1:16
    75%

    16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • Ps 38:6
    75%

    6I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; 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 is near because of darkness.

    13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Jer 8:18
    74%

    18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • Job 17:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

    2Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?

  • Lam 1:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

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

    21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • Job 23:17
    74%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 30:16
    74%

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • Isa 38:12
    73%

    12My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.

  • Job 30:31
    73%

    31My harp is also turned to mourning, and my flute to the voice of those who weep.

  • Lam 1:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Lam 3:4
    73%

    4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has 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 clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • Isa 38:15
    73%

    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Ps 77:4
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    4You hold my eyes wide awake: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

  • Ps 119:82
    73%

    82My eyes fail with longing for Your word, saying, 'When will You comfort me?'

  • Ps 73:21
    73%

    21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pierced in my mind.

  • Ps 102:5
    73%

    5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • Lam 3:6
    73%

    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Job 7:3
    72%

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

  • Lam 3:49
    72%

    49My eye flows ceaselessly, without intermission,

  • Ps 69:3
    72%

    3I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.