Job 19:20
My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
In Context
19All my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me.
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Cross References
Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Job 33:19He also is chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones,
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.
Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
Psalms 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:9-23
Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. ( b. c. 1520.) 8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my… Read the whole commentary →