Verse 20

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

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:5 : 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
  • Lam 4:8 : 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.
  • Job 33:19-22 : 19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones; 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.
  • Ps 22:14-17 : 14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may count all my bones; They look and stare upon me.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {{Selah
  • Ps 38:3 : 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
  • Ps 102:3 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
  • Job 2:4-6 : 4 And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. 5 But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face. 6 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.
  • Job 7:5 : 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.