Hiob 17:7

7 Mein Auge ist dunkel geworden vor Trauern, und alle meine Glieder sind wie ein Schatten.

Hiob 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.

Hiob 17:7 In-Context

5 Es rühmt wohl einer seinen Freunden die Ausbeute; aber seiner Kinder Augen werden verschmachten.

6 Er hat mich zum Sprichwort unter den Leuten gemacht, und ich muß mir ins Angesicht speien lassen.

7 Mein Auge ist dunkel geworden vor Trauern, und alle meine Glieder sind wie ein Schatten.

8 Darüber werden die Gerechten sich entsetzen, und die Unschuldigen werden sich entrüsten gegen die Heuchler.

9 Aber der Gerechte wird seinen Weg behalten; und wer reine Hände hat, wird an Stärke zunehmen.