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Job 19:20

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

KJV

Pelli meæ, consumptis carnibus, adhæsit os meum, et derelicta sunt tantummodo labia circa dentes meos.

Vulgate

ἐν δέρματί μου ἐσάπησαν αἱ σάρκες μου, τὰ δὲ ὀστᾶ μου ἐν ὀδοῦσιν ἔχεται.

LXX

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

ASV

בְּ/עוֹרִ֣/י וּ֭/בִ/בְשָׂרִ/י דָּבְקָ֣ה עַצְמִ֑/י וָ֝/אֶתְמַלְּטָ֗/ה בְּ/ע֣וֹר שִׁנָּֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

דָבְקָה
dbqh
verb · 54×
ה
h
verb · 95×
ו
v
noun · 55×
וֹ
v
noun · 269×
י
y
noun · 126×
ע֔וֹר
'vr
noun · 98×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Job 2:5 — But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
  • Job 16:8 — And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
  • Job 30:18 — By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
  • Job 33:19 — He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
  • Job 33:21 — His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
  • Lam 4:8 — 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.
  • Lam 4:8 — 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.
  • Ps 102:5 — By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
  • Ps 102:5 — By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
  • Ps 109:24 — My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.