Verse 21

Their flesh wastes away so that it can no longer be seen, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:20 : 20 My bones cling to my skin and my flesh, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
  • Prov 5:11 : 11 At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent.
  • Ps 22:15-17 : 15 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts within me. 16 My strength is dried up like a broken piece of pottery, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death. 17 Dogs surround me; a band of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was drained as in the heat of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 Remove Your stroke from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress; incline your ear to me; on the day I call, answer me quickly. 4 For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth. 5 My heart is afflicted and withered like grass, for I forget to eat my food.
  • Job 7:5 : 5 My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
  • Job 14:20 : 20 You overpower him forever, and he departs; you change his face and send him away.
  • Job 14:22 : 22 He feels pain only in his own flesh and mourns only for himself.
  • Job 16:8 : 8 You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.