Job 30:30 · KJV
“My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.”
— Job 30:30
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. {owls: or, ostriches}
My harp also is {turned} to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Job 30 — Context
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, {and} I cried in the congregation.
29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. {owls: or, ostriches}
30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31My harp also is {turned} to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Cross References
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}
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}
Psalms 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; {yet} do I not forget thy statutes.
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}