Job 19:20 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

I am skin and bones, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with 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.

BBE:

My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

DBY:

My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

ERV:

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

JPS:

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

WBS:

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have 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.

YLT:

To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

Job 19:20 Cross References

XREF:

Job 16:8 "You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

Job 33:21 "His flesh wastes away from sight, And his bones which were not seen stick out.

Psalm 102:5 Because of the loudness of my groaning My bones cling to my flesh.

Lamentations 4:8 Their appearance is blacker than soot, They are not recognized in the streets; Their skin is shriveled on their bones, It is withered, it has become like wood. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

19:20 My bone {k} cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
(k) Besides these great losses and most cruel unkindness, he was touched in his own person as follows.

WES:

19:20 Skin - Immediately, the fat and flesh next to the skin being consumed. As - As closely as it doth to these remainders of flesh which are left in my inward parts.

MHC:

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. How uncertain is the friendship of men! but if God be our Friend, he will not fail us in time of need. What little reason we have to indulge the body, which, after all our care, is consumed by diseases it has in itself. Job recommends himself to the compassion of his friends, and justly blames their harshness. It is very distressing to one who loves God, to be bereaved at once of outward comfort and of inward consolation; yet if this, and more, come upon a believer, it does not weaken the proof of his being a child of God and heir of glory.

CONC:

Bone Bones Cleave Cleaved Cleaveth Clings Deliver Escaped Flesh Got Joined Myself Skin Stick Teeth

Bone Bones Cleave Cleaved Cleaveth Clings Deliver Escaped Flesh Joined Skin Stick Teeth

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