Job 19:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.”
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“My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 19:20 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 2:4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
- Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- Job 33:19A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
- Job 33:21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
- Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
- Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
- Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
- Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
- Psalms 102:5Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
- Psalms 102:6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- Lamentations 3:4He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
- Lamentations 4:8But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
- Lamentations 5:10Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
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