Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {and to: or, as to}
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By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. {skin: or, flesh}
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. {blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness}
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong {pain}:
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. {out of...: or, sundered}
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}
{There is} no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither {is there any} rest in my bones because of my sin. {rest: Heb. peace, or, health}
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. {skin: or, flesh}
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones {that} were not seen stick out.
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, {which} is a witness {against me}: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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. {blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness}
By the great force {of my disease} is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay {your} hand upon {your} mouth. {Mark...: Heb. Look unto me}
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
His bones are full {of the sin} of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.