Job 19:20
Good News Translation
My skin hangs loose on my bones; I have barely escaped with my life.

New Revised Standard Version
My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Contemporary English Version
I am skin and bones--just barely alive.

New American Bible
My bones cling to my skin, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

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Job 30:30 My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

Job 33:19-22 He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither. . . .

Psalm 22:14-17 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels. . . .

Psalm 32:3,4 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. . . .

Psalm 38:3 There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.

Psalm 102:3,5 For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. . . .

Lamentations 4:8 Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

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Amos 2:4-6 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Juda, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath cast away the law of the Lord, and hath not kept his commandments: for their idols have caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked. . . .

Amos 7:5 These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part at the same time.

Lamentations 3:4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Context
Job: My Redeemer Lives
19They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me. 20The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.21Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because the hand of the Lord hath touched me.…
Cross References
Luke 10:11
Even the very dust of your city that cleaveth to us, we wipe off against you. Yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand.

Job 2:5
But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.

Job 16:8
But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.

Job 33:21
His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.

Psalm 102:5
Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.

Lamentations 4:8
Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

Job 19:19
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