“ Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my membersd are as a shadow. ”
Mine eye is dim by reason of sorrow - Schultens supposes that this refers to his external appearance in general, as being worn down, exhausted, “defaced” by his many troubles; but it seems rather...
Job 16:22 to Job 17:16 . Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. Job 17:2 is obscure; the general sense...
members . limbs.
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. Mine eye also is dim - Continual weeping impairs the sight; and indeed any affliction that debilitates the frame genera...
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. ( Psalms 6:7 ; Psalms 31:9 ; Deuteronomy 34:7 ). Members - literally, figures; all the individual members be...
Job's Fourth Speech (concluded) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...
“The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...
Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterabl...
(4) For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. (5) He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. (6) He hath made me...
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow ,.... Through excessive weeping, and the abundance of tears he shed, so that he had almost lost his eyesight, or however it was greatly weakened and impaired...
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow. Ver. 7. Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow ] Not only is my good name blasted, but my body also is wasted; the...
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow Through excessive weeping and decay of spirits, which cause a dimness of the sight. And all my members are as a shadow My body is so reduced, and I am gro...
Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
Deplorable Condition of Job; The Improvement of Job's Troubles. B. C. 1520. 1 My breath...
By reason of sorrow; through excessive weeping and decay of spirits, which cause a dimness in the sight. All my members are as a shadow; my body is so consumed, and my colour so wan and ghastly,...
CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Bemoans his dying condition ( Job 17:1 ). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished,...
Job 17:1 . My breath is corrupt. Schultens reads, corruptus est spiritus meus: “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye we...
EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...
Job Complains of his Weakness
Ecclesiastes 6:12 ; Job 16:16 ; Job 17:11 ; Lamentations 5:17 ; Psalms 109:23 ; Psalms 31:10 ; Psalms 31:9 ; Psalms 6:7
As a shadow — I am grown so poor and thin, that I am not to be called a man, but the shadow of a man.