Job 30:30
My skin turns black on me; and my bones burn within me.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
In Context
29I am like a brother to the jackals, a companion to owls.
31My lyre only plays sad songs, and my pipe is the voice of those who weep.
Cross References
Psalms 102:3My life is disappearing like smoke; my body feels like it's on fire!
Psalms 119:83I've become like a wineskin that's been shriveled up by smoke, but I have not forgotten to do as you say.
Lamentations 4:8But now they look blacker than soot; no one recognizes them in the street. Their skin has shrunk to their bones and is as dry as wood.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31
Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →