My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
All my members are as a shadow.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Job 17:7 in context
Job 17:4–10
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For you have hidden their heart from understanding,
therefore you will not exalt them.
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He who denounces his friends for plunder,
even the eyes of his children will fail.
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“But he has made me a byword of the people.
They spit in my face.
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My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow.
All my members are as a shadow.
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Upright men will be astonished at this.
The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.
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Yet the righteous will hold to his way.
He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.
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But as for you all, come back.
I will not find a wise man among you.
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