Verse 7
Job 17:7
World English Bible, British Edition
7
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
All my members are as a shadow.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תֵּ֣כַהּ מִ/כַּ֣עַשׂ עֵינִ֑/י וִֽ/יצֻרַ֖/י כַּ/צֵּ֣ל כֻּלָּֽ/ם
English Translation
And she struck it because of the anger of my eyes and I will form it like all the shadow.
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Chapter 17 Context
1
“My spirit is consumed.
My days are extinct
and the grave is ready for me.
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2
Surely there are mockers with me.
My eye dwells on their provocation.
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3
“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself.
Who is there who will strike hands with me?
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4
For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
therefore you will not exalt them.
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5
He who denounces his friends for plunder,
even the eyes of his children will fail.
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6
“But he has made me a byword of the people.
They spit in my face.
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7
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
All my members are as a shadow.
8
Upright men will be astonished at this.
The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
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9
Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
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10
But as for you all, come back.
I will not find a wise man amongst you.
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11
My days are past.
My plans are broken off,
as are the thoughts of my heart.
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12
They change the night into day,
saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
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13
If I look for Sheol as my house,
if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
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14
if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’
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15
where then is my hope?
As for my hope, who will see it?
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16
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol,
or descend together into the dust?”
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