Job 19:20 · KJV
“My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {and to: or, as to}”
— Job 19:20
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. {my...: Heb. the men of my secret}
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Job 19 — Context
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. {young...: or, the wicked}
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me. {my...: Heb. the men of my secret}
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {and to: or, as to}
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Cross References
Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. {skin: or, flesh}
Lamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. {blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness}
Job 33:19-22
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong {pain}:
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}
Job 2:4-6
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Psalms 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Psalms 22:14-17
I 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. {out of...: or, sundered}