Mine eye, &c.— Mine eye is {fretted / worn away} with indignation; it is grown old because of all my oppressors. Mr. Mudge observes, that the original word עתקה athkah, rendered waxeth old, signifies to be fixed, stiffened, set in one's head. According to him, it never implies age, in the sense of decay, but duration only; and means hard, stiff, firm, durable. Parkhurst, however, rather thinks, that its proper meaning is to sink, or be sunk with grief. So Dryden,
His eye-balls in their hollow sockets sink.