Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 17:7
As a shadow — I am grown so poor and thin, that I am not to be called a man, but the shadow of a man.
As a shadow — I am grown so poor and thin, that I am not to be called a man, but the shadow of a man.
Verse Job 17:7. _MINE EYE ALSO IS DIM_] Continual weeping impairs the sight; and indeed any affliction that debilitates the frame generally weakens the _sight_ in the same proportion. _ALL MY MEMBERS...
MINE EYE IS DIM BY REASON OF SORROW - Schultens supposes that this refers to his external appearance in general, as being worn down, exhausted, “defaced” by his many troubles; but it seems rather to m...
CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
JOB 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must now die. JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
MEMBERS. limbs....
Job 16:18 to Job 17:9. Job, dying a martyr's death, beseeches God that He would uphold his right with God and against men, and give him a pledge that He will make his innocence appear In Job 16:12 Jo...
The sorrowful condition to which Job was reduced by his afflictions....
These verses support the petition in Job 17:3. If God will not undertake for Job none else will, for the hearts of his friends have been blinded. This thought of the perverse obstinacy and cruelty of...
New appeal to God that He would undertake for Job or give him a pledge that he would cause his innocence to be acknowledged by God, Job 17:3; with the grounds for this prayer as before, Job 17:4....
4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to the grave. (Job 17:1-16) TEXT 17:1-16 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is _ready_ for me. 2 Surely there are...
_MINE EYE ALSO IS DIM BY REASON OF SORROW, AND ALL MY MEMBERS ARE AS A SHADOW._ (Psalms 6:7; Psalms 31:9; Deuteronomy 34:7). MEMBERS - literally, figures; all the individual members being special fo...
JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises of restoration in the pre...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 17 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
Job was innocent, but he suffered greatly. Jesus was also innocent, and he too suffered greatly. Sometimes Job’s words remind us about Jesus’ death. See also Psalms 22 and Isaiah chapter 53. The autho...
וַ תֵּ֣כַהּ מִ כַּ֣עַשׂ עֵינִ֑י וִֽ יצֻרַ֖י
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
“THE BARS OF SHEOL” Job 17:1 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...
_Indignation of God, or of myself. (Menochius) --- Nothing. Hebrew, "as a shadow." (Calmet)_...
(4) For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. (5) He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail. (6) He hath made me a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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...
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow. Ver. 7. _Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow_] Not only is my good name blasted, but my body also is wasted; the n...
_Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow_ Through excessive weeping and decay of spirits, which cause a dimness of the sight. _And all my members are as a shadow_ My body is so reduced, and I am grow...
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, the light of his eyes was expiring from weeping and grief, AND ALL MY MEMBERS ARE AS A SHADOW, wasted away like phantoms....
JOB COMPLAINS OF HIS WEAKNESS...
Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
MY MEMBERS: Or, my thoughts...
So intense was his personal grieving that he was losing his sight and that his body, (his members) were wasting away. He was now only. shadow of his former self....
1-9 Job reflects upon the harsh censures his friends had passed upon him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending. It concerns us carefully to redeem the days of...
BY REASON OF SORROW; through excessive weeping and decay of spirits, which cause a dimness in the sight. ALL MY MEMBERS ARE AS A SHADOW; my body is so consumed, and my colour so wan and ghastly, that...
Job 17:7 eye H5869 dim H3543 (H8799) sorrow H3708 members H3338 shadows H6738 Mine eye - Job 16:16;...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death. CHARACTERS: Job. CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 17:7 ALL MY MEMBERS. Job’s entire body is exhausted from grief and pain. Compare Job 16:7....
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1). “My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a l...
EXPOSITION JOB 17:1 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
Ecclesiastes 6:12; Job 16:16; Job 17:11; Lamentations 5:17; Ps