Job 19:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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 skin.
  • 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 the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]: 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. 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 grave, 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 in the midst of my bowels. 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: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 38:3 : 3 [There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
  • Ps 102:3 : 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
  • 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 the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. 5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. 6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in thine hand; but save his life.
  • Job 7:5 : 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible 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 skin.

  • 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%

    18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

    19All my inward friends abhorred 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 gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [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 in the midst of my bowels.

    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: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

    17I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.

  • Job 13:14
    77%

    14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

  • Job 16:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

    9He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

    10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered 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 upon 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 hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

  • Ps 3:7
    74%

    7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies [upon] the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

  • Job 30:16-19
    4 verses
    74%

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

    17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

    18By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: 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 is broken, and become loathsome.

  • Job 19:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:

    27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me.

  • Job 31:22
    73%

    22[Then] let mine arm fall from my 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: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:

    16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • Ps 31:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

    11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

  • Job 16:20
    72%

    20My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.

  • Job 29:17
    72%

    17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil 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 from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

  • Lam 1:13
    72%

    13From above 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 sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

  • Ps 39:10
    72%

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

  • Job 33:19
    71%

    19¶ He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]:

  • Job 19:13
    71%

    13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

  • Job 41:23
    71%

    23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Ps 141:7
    70%

    7Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.

  • Ps 38:3
    70%

    3[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest 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%

    10[As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily 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%

    13[Is] not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?