Job 17:7

7 Mis ojos se oscurecen también por el sufrimiento, y mis miembros todos son como una sombra.

Job 17:7 Meaning and Commentary

Job 17:7

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 that means, which is often the case, see ( Psalms 6:7 ) ( 31:9 ) ;

and all my members [are] as a shadow;
his flesh was consumed off his bones, there were nothing left scarcely but skin and bone; he was a mere anatomy, and as thin as a lath, as we commonly say of a man that is quite worn away, as it were; is a walking shadow, has scarce any substance in him, but is the mere shadow of a man; the Targum interprets it of his form, splendour, and countenance, which were like a shadow; some interpret it "my thoughts" ^F20, and understand it of the formations of his mind, and not of his body, which were shadows, empty, fleeting, and having no consistence in them through that sorrow that possessed him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (yruy) "cogitationes meae", Pagninus, Bolducius, Codurcus, so Ben Gersom.

Job 17:7 In-Context

5 Al que denuncie a sus amigos por una parte del botín, a sus hijos se les debilitarán los ojos.

6 Porque El me ha hecho proverbio del pueblo, y soy uno a quien los hombres escupen.

7 Mis ojos se oscurecen también por el sufrimiento, y mis miembros todos son como una sombra.

8 Los rectos se quedarán pasmados de esto, y el inocente se indignará contra el impío.

9 Sin embargo el justo se mantendrá en su camino, y el de manos limpias más y más se fortalecerá.