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Job 17:7

Job 17:7
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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 by…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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 to…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 17:1-9

Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads: -

I.…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

The sorrowful condition to which Job was reduced by his afflictions.