Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
King James Version
In Context
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Cross References
Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Job 33:19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms 102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
Psalms 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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 →