Job 17:7
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
BSB
ASV
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
KJV
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members 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 to mean that his eyes failed on account of weeping. And all my members are as a shadow - “I am a mere skeleton, I am exhausted and emaciated by my sufferings.” It is common to speak of persons who are emaciated by sickness or famine as mere shadows. Thus, Livy (L.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him…
leads to
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
I have seen that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work, because that is his lot. For who can bring him to see what will come after him?
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
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Job 16:16My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;
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For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch.”
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.