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Job 17:7 — Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Mine eye		Job 16:16; Psa 6:7; Psa 31:9,10; Lam 5:17
members		or, thoughts. Job 17:11
shadow		Psa 109:23; Ecc 6:12

Correlating Passages

Mine eye

	Job 16:16	My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;
	Psa 6:7	Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
	Psa 31:9	Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.
	Psa 31:10	For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
	Lam 5:17	For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.

members

Job 17:11

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.

shadow

	Psa 109:23	I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
	Ecc 6:12	For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 17:7," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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