20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
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.
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: …
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-22)Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job’s complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon their good nature, if they had any left in them. I. He complains of the tokens of God’s displeasure which he was under, and which infused the wormwood and gall into the affliction and misery. How dole…
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