Job 30:30
My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
In Context
29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
31Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
Cross References
Psalms 102:3(102-4) For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.
Psalms 119:83For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; yet do I not forget Thy statutes.
Lamentations 4:8Their visage is blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets; their skin is shrivelled upon their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
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 →