Job 17:7

7 Daarom is mijn oog door verdriet verdonkerd, en al mijn ledematen zijn gelijk een schaduw.

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 Die met vleiing den vrienden wat aanzegt, ook zijner kinderen ogen zullen versmachten.

6 Doch Hij heeft mij tot een spreekwoord der volken gesteld; zodat ik een trommelslag ben voor ieders aangezicht.

7 Daarom is mijn oog door verdriet verdonkerd, en al mijn ledematen zijn gelijk een schaduw.

8 De oprechten zullen hierover verbaasd zijn, en de onschuldige zal zich tegen den huichelaar opmaken;

9 En de rechtvaardige zal zijn weg vasthouden, en die rein van handen is, zal in sterkte toenemen.