Verse 20

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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.