EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 19:20
20My body is now only skin and bones. I still breathe but I am only just alive.
Job 19:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
- New International Version (NIV)I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, And I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Context of Job 19:20
18Even young children insult me. When I stand up, they laugh at me. 19My best friends hate me. People that I love have turned against me. My body is now only skin and bones. I still breathe but I am only just alive. 21Please be kind to me, my friends. God has caused me to suffer, so please be kind to me. 22Do not punish me as God is punishing me. You have already caused me to suffer enough.
Read all of Job 19Job 19:20 word by word
בְּעוֹרִ֣י וּ֭בִבְשָׂרִי דָּבְקָ֣ה עַצְמִ֑י וָ֝אֶתְמַלְּטָ֗ה בְּע֣וֹר שִׁנָּֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 19:20
- Job 30:30My skin has become black, and bits of skin fall off. My body is hot with fever.
- Job 33:19Or God may warn people with a painful illness. He may make their bodies hurt all the time.
- Psalms 22:14My strength has gone, like water that is poured away. My bones do not join together properly. I feel weak inside and hope has disappeared.
- Psalms 32:3When I said nothing to God about my sin, my whole body became weak. I cried all the time because of the pain.
- Psalms 38:3Your punishment has made my whole body ill. My health has gone, because of my sin.
- Psalms 102:3My life is quickly disappearing, like smoke from a fire. My bones hurt very much, as if they were burning in an oven.
- Lamentations 4:8Now their faces are dirty and black. People see them in the streets, but they do not recognize them. Their skin hangs on their bones. Their skin is as dry as wood for a fire.
- Amos 2:4The Lord says, ‘The people in Judah have done more and more wrong things. So I will certainly punish them. They refused to obey my laws and my commands. They have listened to their false gods, Those are the same false gods that their ancestors served.
- Amos 7:5I said, ‘Lord God, please do not do that! Your people cannot continue to live. We are too weak!’
- Lamentations 3:4God has caused my skin and my whole body to become old. He has broken my bones.
- Lamentations 5:10Our skin feels as if we are burning. We are so hungry that we are ill.
Commentaries on Job 19:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20My bone cleaveth to my skin - My flesh is entirely wasted away, and nothing but skin and bone left. I am escaped with the skin of my teeth - I have had the most narrow escape. If I still live, it is a thing to be wondered at, my sufferings and privations have been so great. To escape with the skin of the teeth seems to have been a proverbial expression, signifying great difficulty. I had as narrow an escape from death, as the thickness of the enamel on…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh - The meaning of this probably is, “my skin and flesh are dried up so that the bone seems adhere to the skin, and so tht the form of the bone becomes visible.” It is designed to denote a state of great emaciation, and describes an effect which we often see. And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth - A very difficult expression, and which has greatly perplexed commentators, and on whose meaning they are by no…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-22Verses 8-22 How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends. How uncertain is the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20escaped by the skin of my teeth: This figure of speech means a narrow escape. In Hebrew, it might also suggest that Job became as thin as a skeleton with a skull full of teeth.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. Extreme meagerness. The bone seemed to stick in the skin, being seen through it, owing to the flesh drying up and falling away from the bone. The Margin, "as to my flesh," makes this sense clearer. The English Version, however, expresses the same: "And to my flesh," namely, which has fallen away from the bone, instead of firmly covering it. skin of my teeth--proverbial. I have escaped with bare life; I am whole only with the skin of my teeth; that is…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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