Job 19:20

World English Bible (2000)

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by 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 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:5
    82%

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

  • Job 19:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21"Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

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

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    80%

    18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

    19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

  • Lam 3:4
    79%

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

  • Ps 22:13-17
    5 verses
    77%

    13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

    14I am poured out like water. 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. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

    16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

    17I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

  • Job 13:14
    77%

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

  • Job 16:8-10
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    77%

    8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

    9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

    10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck 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 removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Job 30:30
    75%

    30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

  • Job 33:21
    75%

    21His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

  • Job 10:11
    75%

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

  • Ps 3:7
    74%

    7Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

  • Job 30:16-19
    4 verses
    74%

    16"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

    17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

    18By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

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

  • Job 7:5
    74%

    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

  • Job 19:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

    26After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,

    27Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

  • Job 31:22
    73%

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

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

    16Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

  • Ps 31:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

    11Because 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.

  • Job 16:20
    72%

    20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

  • Job 29:17
    72%

    17I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

  • Lam 3:11
    72%

    11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Ps 22:19
    72%

    19But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

  • Lam 1:13
    72%

    13From 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.

  • Ps 38:11
    72%

    11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

  • Ps 39:10
    72%

    10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • Job 33:19
    71%

    19He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

  • Job 19:13
    71%

    13"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

  • Job 41:23
    71%

    23The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Ps 141:7
    70%

    7"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."

  • Ps 38:3
    70%

    3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

  • Job 16:13
    70%

    13His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

  • Ps 42:10
    70%

    10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask 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%

    13Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?