Job 19:20
To my skin and to my flesh my bones do cleave, and I must sustain myself with the gums of my teeth.
Leeser Tanakh
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 that have had my confidence abominate me; and those whom I have loved are turned against me.
21Spare me, spare me, O ye, my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Cross References
Job 7:5My flesh is covered with worms and clods of dust: my skin is burst open, and become loathsome.
Job 33:19And so is he admonished by pain upon his couch, and all his bones with violent [aches].
Psalms 22:14(22:15) Like water am I poured out, and all my bones are disjointed: my heart is become like wax, it is melted in the midst of my entrails.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my crying all the day.
Psalms 102:3(102:4) For my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are burning like a hearth.
Psalms 102:6(102:7) I am like the pelican of the wilderness: I am become like the owl amid 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 →