Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 19:20 in other translations
| BSB | My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself 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. |
| BBE | My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth. |
| Webster | My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. |
What does Job 19:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 19:8-22
How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends…
Job 19:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 19:20
- Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
- Lamentations 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.
- Job 33:19-22
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: 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. Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
- Psalms 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. 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. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
- Job 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. But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
- Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
- Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
- Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
- Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
- Psalms 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- Psalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
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Context
- Job 19:19
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
- Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- Job 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Job 19:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mi cuero y mi carne se pegaron á mis huesos; y he escapado con la piel de mis dientes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mes os s’attachent à ma peau et à ma chair, et j’ai échappé avec la peau de mes dents! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Mein Gebein klebt an meiner Haut und an meinem Fleische, und nur mit der Haut meiner Zähne bin ich entronnen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Pelli meæ, consumptis carnibus, adhæsit os meum, et derelicta sunt tantummodo labia circa dentes meos. |