Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 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 are as a shadow. ] Nothing is left but skin and bone. I am but the shadow of my former self.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 time, and to spend them in getting ready for eternity. We see the good use the righteous should make of Job's afflictions from God, from enemies, an from friends. Instead of being discouraged in the service of God, by the hard usage this faithful servant of God met with, they should be made bold to proceed and persevere therein. Those who keep their ey upon heaven as their end, will keep their feet in the paths of religio as their way, whatever difficulties and discouragements they may mee with.
Original Hebrew ותכה3543 מכעשׂ3708 עיני5869 ויצרי3338 כצל6738 כלם׃3605
