Job 19:20
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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- Ps 102:5 : 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
- Lam 4:8 : 8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin clings to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
- Job 33:19-22 : 19 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones; 20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
- Ps 22:14-17 : 14 I am poured out like water. 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. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet. 17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
- Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
- Ps 38:3 : 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
- Ps 102:3 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- Lam 3:4 : 4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
- Job 2:4-6 : 4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. 5 But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face." 6 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."
- Job 7:5 : 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
- Job 30:30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
- Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
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16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
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14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
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8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
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30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
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21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
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5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
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26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
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10 For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.
11 Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
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20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
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17 I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
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11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
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19 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.
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13 From on high has he 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.
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11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
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10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
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19 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;
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13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
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23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.
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7 "As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."
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3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
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13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.
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10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
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9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?