Job 17:7

World English Bible (2000)

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:16 : 16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
  • Ps 6:7 : 7 My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
  • Ps 31:9-9 : 9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. 10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like 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 shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

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    7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

  • Job 16:15-16
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    15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

    16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

  • Ps 31:9-11
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    9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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

    11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

  • Ps 38:10
    78%

    10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

  • Job 17:6
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    6"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

  • Job 7:6-8
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    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 no more see good.

    8The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

  • Ps 102:11
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    11My days are like a long shadow. I have 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. My pain is continually before me.

  • Job 16:20
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    20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

  • Ps 88:9
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    9My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

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

  • Lam 3:51
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    51My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

  • Job 16:7-8
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    7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

    8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

  • Lam 1:16
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    16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.

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

  • Job 17:11-13
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    11My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

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

  • Jer 8:18
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    18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

  • Job 17:1-2
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    1"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

    2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    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 proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

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

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    16"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

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    31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

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    4You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

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    82My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

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    5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

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

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

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    3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.