Job 19:20
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
World English Bible Catholic
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 my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
21“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
Cross References
Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Job 33:19“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
Psalms 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste 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 →