Verse 20

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

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 visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves 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 evil-doers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my 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 firebrand.
  • 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 will he 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.