| Geneva Study Bible Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow. Wesley's Notes 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. King James Translators' Notes my members: or, my thoughts Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 7. (Ps 6:7; 31:9; De 34:7). members-literally, "figures"; all the individual members being peculiar forms of the body; opposed to "shadow," which looks like a figure without solidity. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 17:1-9 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, and 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 eye upon heaven as their end, will keep their feet in the paths of religion as their way, whatever difficulties and discouragements they may meet with. | 
