Job 19:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin or gums of my teeth.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Common English Bible

²⁰ My bones cling to my skin and flesh; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Since my flesh has been consumed, my bone adheres to my skin, and only my lips have been left around my teeth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

Job 19:20 Cross References

Job 16:8

And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; my leanness has risen up against me, and it testifies to my face.

Job 30:30

My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out again.

Psalm 102:3

For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.

Psalm 102:5

Because of my loud groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

Psalm 102:6

I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like a little owl of the waste places.

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.

Lamentations 3:4

He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;

Lamentations 4:8

Now their visage is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.

Luke 10:11

‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.’