Job 19:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:5 : 5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.
  • Job 33:19-22 : 19 Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones; 20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat; 21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ... 22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.
  • Ps 22:14-17 : 14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body. 15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips. 16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet. 17 I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
  • Ps 38:3 : 3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
  • Ps 102:3 : 3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
  • Job 2:4-6 : 4 And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life. 5 But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face. 6 And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.
  • Job 7:5 : 5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:5
    82%

    5Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • Job 19:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

    22Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

    19All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

  • Lam 3:4
    79%

    4My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Ps 22:13-17
    5 verses
    77%

    13I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

    14I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

    16Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

    17I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

  • Job 13:14
    77%

    14I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

  • Job 16:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

    9I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

    10Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Lam 3:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

    17My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Job 30:30
    75%

    30My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

  • Job 33:21
    75%

    21His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

  • Job 10:11
    75%

    11By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.

  • Ps 3:7
    74%

    7Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.

  • Job 30:16-19
    4 verses
    74%

    16But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

    17The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

    18With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

    19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Job 7:5
    74%

    5My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

  • Job 19:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26And ... without my flesh I will see God;

    27Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

  • Job 31:22
    73%

    22May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

    16Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

  • Ps 31:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

    11Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

  • Job 16:20
    72%

    20My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,

  • Job 29:17
    72%

    17By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Ps 22:19
    72%

    19Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

  • Lam 1:13
    72%

    13From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • Ps 38:11
    72%

    11My lovers and my friends keep away from my disease; my relations keep far away.

  • Ps 39:10
    72%

    10No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Job 33:19
    71%

    19Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

  • Job 19:13
    71%

    13He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

  • Job 41:23
    71%

    23After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • Ps 141:7
    70%

    7Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.

  • Ps 38:3
    70%

    3My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin.

  • Job 16:13
    70%

    13His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

  • Ps 42:10
    70%

    10The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

  • Job 19:9
    70%

    9He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 6:13
    70%

    13I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.