Job 19:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 19:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
Lamentations 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.
Job 33:19-22
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: …
Psalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. 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 bar…