Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
  • Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch. 4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't forget your statutes.
  • Job 19:20 : 20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
  • Job 30:17-19 : 17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest. 18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
  • Ruth 1:19-20 : 19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, "Is this Naomi?" 20 She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
  • Job 2:12 : 12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
  • Job 33:21 : 21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
  • Ps 32:4 : 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.
  • Isa 52:14 : 14 Like as many were astonished at you (his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
  • Lam 4:1-2 : 1 How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
  • Joel 2:6 : 6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.
  • Nah 2:10 : 10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.