Job 33:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:20 : 20 My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
  • Prov 5:11 : 11 And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.
  • Ps 22:15-17 : 15 The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death. 16 Yes, wild dogs surround me– a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet. 17 I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long. 4 For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer.(Selah)
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace. 4 My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food. 5 Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.
  • Job 7:5 : 5 My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.
  • Job 13:28 : 28 So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
  • Job 14:20 : 20 You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.
  • Job 14:22 : 22 His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”
  • Job 16:8 : 8 You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

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    19Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

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    22He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

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    4ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.

  • Ps 102:3-5
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    3For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

    4My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.

    5Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.

  • Job 14:22
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    22His flesh only has pain for him, and he mourns for himself.”

  • Job 18:12-14
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    12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

    13It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.

    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

  • Job 7:5
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    5My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.

  • Job 13:28
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    28So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

  • Job 20:11
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    11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

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    24his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

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  • Lam 4:8
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    8ח(Khet) Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark.

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    20My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.

  • Ps 31:10
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    10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • Job 41:23
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    23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable.

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    24I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.

  • Ps 141:7
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    7As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    14My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

    15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

  • Job 30:17-18
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    17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

    18With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.

  • Prov 5:11
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    11And at the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are wasted away.

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.

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    21“Nothing is left for him to devour; that is why his prosperity does not last.

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    30My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.

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    25then his flesh is restored like a youth’s; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.

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    20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

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    11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

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    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

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    7For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick.

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    23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

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

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    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.