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Job 17:7

GriefExhaustion

5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.

6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.

8 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent are stirred against the godless.

9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

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BSB
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
KJV
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
WEB
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
ASV
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
DARBY
And mine eye is dim by reason of grief, and all my members are as a shadow.
BLB
And my eye is dim from sorrow, and my members [are] like a shadow, all of them.
ÅB
Mitt øye er sløvt av gremmelse, og alle mine lemmer er som en skygge.
OTB
Mitt øye har også blitt svakt på grunn av sorg,
Og alle mine kroppsdeler er som en skygge.
B1930
Mitt øie er sløvt av gremmelse, og alle mine lemmer er som en skygge.

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