Job 19:20
My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
21Haue pitie vpon me: haue pitie vpon me, (O yee my friendes) for the hande of God hath touched me.
Cross References
Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.
Job 33:19He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore,
Psalms 22:14I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels.
Psalms 32:3When I helde my tongue, my bones consumed, or when I roared all the day,
Psalms 102:3For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.
Psalms 102:6I am like a pelicane of the wildernesse: I am like an owle of the deserts.
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 →