Job 19:20
To my skin and to my flesh || My bone has cleaved, || And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
Literal Standard 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 the men of my counsel detest me, || And those I have loved, || Have been turned against me.
21Pity me, pity me, you my friends, || For the hand of God has struck against me.
Cross References
Job 7:5My flesh has been clothed [with] worms, || And a clod of dust, || My skin has been shriveled and is loathsome,
Job 33:19And he has been reproved || With pain on his bed, || And the strife of his bones [is] enduring.
Psalms 22:14I have been poured out as waters, || And all my bones have separated themselves, || My heart has been like wax, || It is melted in the midst of My bowels.
Psalms 32:3When I have kept silence, my bones have become old, || Through my roaring all the day.
Psalms 102:3For my days have been consumed in smoke, || And my bones have burned as a firebrand.
Psalms 102:6I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, || I have been as an owl of the dry 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 →