Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.

New American Standard Bible

“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.

King James Version

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

International Standard Version

My eyes have grown weak from grief; and my whole body is as thin as a shadow.

A Conservative Version

My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

American Standard Version

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

Amplified


“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,
And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.

Bible in Basic English

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

Darby Translation

And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.

Julia Smith Translation

And mine eye shall be weak from vexation, and my thoughts as a shadow all of them.

King James 2000

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

Modern King James verseion

My eye also is dim from grief; and all my members are like a shadow.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Mine eye is dim for very heaviness, and all my strength is become like a shadow.

NET Bible

My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

New Heart English Bible

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

The Emphasized Bible

Therefore hath mine eye become dim from vexation, and, my members, are like a shadow, all of them.

Webster

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shade.

World English Bible

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

Youngs Literal Translation

And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
also is dim
כּהה 
Kahah 
Usage: 8

by reason of sorrow
כּעשׂ כּעס 
Ka`ac 
Usage: 25

and all my members
יצר 
Yatsur 
Usage: 1

Context Readings

Job Says To His Friends: I'M Still Wiser Than You

6 He has made me an object of scorn to the people;
I have become a man people spit at.
7 My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.
8 The upright are appalled at this,
and the innocent are roused against the godless.



Cross References

Job 16:16

My face has grown red with weeping,
and darkness covers my eyes,

Psalm 6:7

My eyes are swollen from grief;
they grow old because of all my enemies.

Job 16:8

You have shriveled me up—it has become a witness;
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

Psalm 31:9-10

Be gracious to me, Lord,
because I am in distress;
my eyes are worn out from angry sorrow—
my whole being as well.

Psalm 109:23

I fade away like a lengthening shadow;
I am shaken off like a locust.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell man what will happen after him under the sun?

Lamentations 5:17

Because of this, our heart is sick;
because of these, our eyes grow dim:

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