King James Version
Job 17:7 in the King James Version says “Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. my members: or, my thoughts” — study this verse from Job chapter 17 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. my members: or, my thoughts”
Job 17:7 · KJV
He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret. aforetime: or, before them
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. my members: or, my thoughts
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. be: Heb. add strength
KJV Study — Public Domain
“also is dim”
H3543to be weak, i.e., (figuratively) to despond (causatively, rebuke), or (of light, the eye) to grow dull
“Mine eye”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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