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Job 17:7
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Job 17:7
7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
7Mine eye also is dimme by reason of sorrow, and all ‖my members are as a shadow.
- Or, my thoughts.
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Job 17:7
The organ of sight; also to look upon or observe attentively.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Faint or lacking brightness or clarity; also to obscure or make less bright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A ground or cause; understanding or judgment; to think, discuss, or argue.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Grief, mental pain, distress, or mourning; also to grieve.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Limbs or subordinate parts of bodies; individual constituents belonging to larger bodies.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Shade from light; a dark outline; or a figure of protection, transience, or a coming reality, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 7
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Open the full verse study16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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Open the full verse study7Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
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Open the full verse study9Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.
10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
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Open the full verse study12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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Open the full verse study8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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Open the full verse study17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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Open the full verse study23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
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