Job 19:20
I've been reduced to skin and bones and I survive by the skin of my teeth.
Free Bible 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 closest friends despise me, and those I loved have turned on me.
21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, because God has struck me down!
Cross References
Job 7:5My body is covered with maggots and caked in dirt; my skin is cracked, with oozing sores.
Job 33:19People are also disciplined on a bed of pain with constant aching in their bones.
Psalms 22:14I feel like I'm being poured out like water. I'm falling apart as if all my bones have become loose. My mind feels like it's wax melting inside me.
Psalms 32:3When I kept quiet, my body fell apart as I groaned in distress all day long.
Psalms 102:3My life is disappearing like smoke; my body feels like it's on fire!
Psalms 102:6I'm like a desert owl, like a little owl among the ruins.
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 →