Job 33:21
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
- KJV
- His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
- WEB
- His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
- ASV
- His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.
- DARBY
- His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out;
- BLB
- His flesh is consumed from sight, and his bones [that] were not seen are laid bare.
- ÅB
- Hans kjøtt tæres bort, så en ikke ser det mere, og hans ben, som en før ikke så, ligger bare;
- OTB
- Deres kjøtt svinner bort til ingenting,
og deres ben, en gang usett, stikker nå ut. - B1930
- Hans kjøtt tæres bort, så en ikke ser det mere, og hans ben, som en før ikke så, ligger bare;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Read in contextJob 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Read in contextJob 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Read in contextProverbs 5:11
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Read in contextJob 14:22
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
Read in contextPsalms 102:3–5
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Read in contextPsalms 22:15–17
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
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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