Devine Scripture

Job 19:20

Job chapter 19 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Context

v.19All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

v.20This passage

v.21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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.

  • Lamentations 5:10

    Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

  • Job 2:4

    And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

  • Job 33:19

    He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;

  • Psalms 38:3

    There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

  • Job 7:5

    My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.