Job 16:16

My face is foul The word may mean inflamed, from a root signifying to be red; or the root of the word may mean to ferment, and the reference be to the swollen and blurred appearance of the face from excessive weeping. Involuntary weeping is said to be a symptom of Elephantiasis. The second clause expresses another effect of this weeping, his eyes became dim (ch. Job 17:7; Psalms 6:7; Psalms 69:3), and there lay thick darkness upon them though this was also a sign of diminishing vitality; comp. Goethe's dying cry, More light!