Job 19:20

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:5
    82%

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • Job 19:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    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?

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

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

  • Lam 3:4
    79%

    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • Ps 22:13-17
    5 verses
    77%

    13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.

    14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

    16For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

    17I may count all my bones; They look and stare upon me.

  • Job 13:14
    77%

    14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

  • Job 16:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me] : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

    9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

    10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

  • Lam 3:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

    17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

  • Job 30:30
    75%

    30My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

  • Job 33:21
    75%

    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

  • Job 10:11
    75%

    11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • Ps 3:7
    74%

    7Arise, O Jehovah; Save me, O my God: For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; Thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.

  • Job 30:16-19
    4 verses
    74%

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

    17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

    18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

    19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 7:5
    74%

    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

  • Job 19:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

    27Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.

  • Job 31:22
    73%

    22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

    16Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • Ps 31:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

    11Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

  • Job 16:20
    72%

    20My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

  • Job 29:17
    72%

    17And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • Ps 22:19
    72%

    19But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.

  • Lam 1:13
    72%

    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Ps 38:11
    72%

    11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.

  • Ps 39:10
    72%

    10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • Job 33:19
    71%

    19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;

  • Job 19:13
    71%

    13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

  • Job 41:23
    71%

    23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm upon him; They cannot be moved.

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Ps 141:7
    70%

    7As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • Ps 38:3
    70%

    3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

  • Job 16:13
    70%

    13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

  • Ps 42:10
    70%

    10As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

  • Job 19:9
    70%

    9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 6:13
    70%

    13Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?