Job 19:20

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My bones cling to my skin and my flesh, and I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

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  • Ps 102:5 : 5 My heart is afflicted and withered like grass, for I forget to eat my food.
  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
  • Job 33:19-22 : 19 A person is also chastened with pain on their bed and continual aching in their bones. 20 Their life begins to loathe food, and their soul rejects even the most desirable meal. 21 Their flesh wastes away so that it can no longer be seen, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out. 22 Their soul draws near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death.
  • Ps 22:14-17 : 14 They open their mouths against me, like a lion ripping and roaring. 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 38:3 : 3 For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down upon me.
  • Ps 102:3 : 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.
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.
  • Job 2:4-6 : 4 Satan answered the LORD, 'Skin for skin! A man will give everything he has for his own life.' 5 But stretch out your hand and strike his bone and flesh, and he will surely curse you to your face! 6 The LORD said to Satan, 'Very well, he is in your hands; only spare his life.'
  • Job 7:5 : 5 My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels off, and my bones burn with fever.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is hot as an oven, burned from the raging heat of famine.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:5
    82%

    5 My heart is afflicted and withered like grass, for I forget to eat my food.

  • Job 19:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, my friends, because the hand of God has struck me.

    22 Why do you pursue me as God does and are not satisfied with my flesh?

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18 Even little children despise me; when I rise, they speak against me.

    19 All my close friends abhor me, and those I loved have turned against me.

  • Lam 3:4
    79%

    4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

  • Ps 22:13-17
    5 verses
    77%

    13 Many bulls surround me; strong ones of Bashan encircle me.

    14 They open their mouths against me, like a lion ripping and roaring.

    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.

  • Job 13:14
    77%

    14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

  • Job 16:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8 You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

    9 His anger tears at me, and he hates me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

    10 They gape at me with their mouths; they strike my cheeks in scorn and together they conspire against me.

  • Lam 3:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in ashes.

    17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Job 30:30
    75%

    30 My skin grows black and peels off, and my bones burn with fever.

  • Job 33:21
    75%

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

  • Job 10:11
    75%

    11 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • Ps 3:7
    74%

    7 I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side.

  • Job 30:16-19
    4 verses
    74%

    16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of suffering seize hold of me.

    17 At night my bones are pierced within me, and my veins find no rest.

    18 With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me like the collar of my tunic.

    19 He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • Job 7:5
    74%

    5 My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.

  • Job 19:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.

    27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!

  • Job 31:22
    73%

    22 then let my shoulder fall from its socket, and let my arm be broken off at the joint.

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; attackers I did not know came against me, ripping at me without ceasing.

    16 Like godless mockers at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

  • Ps 31:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes grow weak with sorrow, as do my soul and my body.

    11 My life is consumed with grief and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasting away.

  • Job 16:20
    72%

    20 My intercessors are my friends; my eye drips to God.

  • Job 29:17
    72%

    17 I broke the jaws of the wicked and snatched the prey from his teeth.

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

    11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Ps 22:19
    72%

    19 They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

  • Lam 1:13
    72%

    13 From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

  • Ps 38:11
    72%

    11 My heart throbs, my strength has left me; even the light of my eyes—it has also gone from me.

  • Ps 39:10
    72%

    10 I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.

  • Job 33:19
    71%

    19 A person is also chastened with pain on their bed and continual aching in their bones.

  • Job 19:13
    71%

    13 He has driven my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances have turned against me.

  • Job 41:23
    71%

    23 He makes the deep boil like a pot; he stirs up the sea like a boiling ointment.

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Ps 141:7
    70%

    7 As one plows the earth and breaks it apart, so are our bones scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • Ps 38:3
    70%

    3 For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down upon me.

  • Job 16:13
    70%

    13 His archers surround me and pierce my kidneys without mercy; he pours my gall on the ground.

  • Ps 42:10
    70%

    10 I say to God, my rock: 'Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?'

  • Job 19:9
    70%

    9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

  • Job 6:13
    70%

    13 Indeed, there is no help in me, and ability has been driven from me.

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