Job 33:21
Our bodies become very thin, with the result that we look like skeletons [HYP], and our bones stick out.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
In Context
20The result is that we do not desire any food, not even very special food.
22We know that we will soon die and go to the place where dead people are.
Cross References
Job 13:28As a result, my body is decaying like [SIM] rotten wood, like a piece of cloth that is eaten by larvae of moths.”
Job 14:22We will feel our own pains; we will not feel anything else; we will be sorry for ourselves, not for anyone else.”
Job 19:20My body is only skin and bones; I am barely alive [IDM].
Psalms 32:3When I did not confess my sins, ◄my body/I► was very weak and sick, and I groaned ◄all day long/continually►.
Psalms 102:3My life is ending, like smoke that disappears [SIM]; I have a high fever which burns my body like a fire burns [SIM].
Matthew Henry on Job 33:20-29
19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness: 24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down… Read the whole commentary →