Ayub 16:7

16:7 Surely now he ¹  has worn me out,

you have devastated my entire household.

Mazmur 6:7

6:7 My eyes ²  grow dim ³  from suffering;

they grow weak ⁴  because of all my enemies. ⁵ 

[16:7]  ¹ tn In poetic discourse there is often an abrupt change from person to another. See GKC 462 §144.p. Some take the subject of this verb to be God, others the pain (“surely now it has worn me out”).

[6:7]  ² tn The Hebrew text has the singular “eye” here.

[6:7]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “are swollen.”

[6:7]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps, “grow old.”

[6:7]  ⁵ sn In his weakened condition the psalmist is vulnerable to the taunts and threats of his enemies.