Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burnt with heat.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
In Context
29I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Cross References
Psalms 102:3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burnt as a torch.
Psalms 119:83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
Lamentations 4:8Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.
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 →