Job 19:20
18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- KJV
- My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- WEB
- My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- ASV
- My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- DARBY
- My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- BLB
- My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- ÅB
- Mine ben trenger ut gjennom min hud og mitt kjøtt, og bare tannhinnen er enda urørt på meg.
- OTB
- Jeg er redusert til hud og ben;
jeg har sluppet unna med bare huden på mine tenner. - B1930
- Mine ben trenger ut gjennem min hud og mitt kjøtt, og bare tannhinnen er ennu urørt på mig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
Read in contextLamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Read in contextJob 33:19–22
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Read in contextPsalms 22:14–17
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Read in contextJob 2:4–6
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Read in contextJob 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Read in contextLamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Read in contextPsalms 32:3–4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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