Job 19:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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  • Ps 102:5 : 5 Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.
  • Lam 4:8 : 8 Their appearance is blacker than coal; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin clings to their bones; it has withered, it has 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 abhors 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 Yes, his soul draws near to 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 within me. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I can count all my bones; they look and stare at me.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 38:3 : 3 There is no health in my flesh because of your anger, nor 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 like a hearth.
  • Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.
  • Job 2:4-6 : 4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yes, all that a man has will he give for his life. 5 But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face. 6 And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand; but spare his life.
  • Job 7:5 : 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and becomes loathsome.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is black as an oven because of the terrible famine.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:5
    82%

    5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • Job 19:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

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

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

    19All my close friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved have turned against me.

  • Lam 3:4
    79%

    4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

  • Ps 22:13-17
    5 verses
    77%

    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and 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 clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

    16For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

    17I can count all my bones; they look and stare at me.

  • Job 13:14
    77%

    14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

  • Job 16:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

    9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

    10They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • Lam 3:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

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

    17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot 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%

    11You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and have fenced me with bones and sinews.

  • Ps 3:7
    74%

    7Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies on the cheekbone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

  • Job 30:16-19
    4 verses
    74%

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

    17My bones are pierced in me at night, and my sinews find no rest.

    18By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat.

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 7:5
    74%

    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and becomes loathsome.

  • Job 19:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Job 31:22
    73%

    22Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken at the bone.

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

    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 fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

    11I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintances: those who saw me outside fled from me.

  • Job 16:20
    72%

    20My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

  • Job 29:17
    72%

    17And I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the victim from his teeth.

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

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

  • Ps 22:19
    72%

    19But do not be far from me, O LORD; O my strength, hurry to help me.

  • Lam 1:13
    72%

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Ps 38:11
    72%

    11My loved ones and friends stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand far off.

  • Ps 39:10
    72%

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

  • Job 33:19
    71%

    19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain;

  • Job 19:13
    71%

    13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me.

  • Job 41:23
    71%

    23The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on him and cannot be moved.

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10Then I should still have comfort; yes, 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 mouth of the grave, as when one cuts and splits wood upon the earth.

  • Ps 38:3
    70%

    3There is no health in my flesh because of your anger, nor is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

  • Job 16:13
    70%

    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

  • Ps 42:10
    70%

    10As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

  • Job 19:9
    70%

    9He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 6:13
    70%

    13Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?