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Job 19:20

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “My bone clings to my skin and my flesh, And I have escaped [only] by the skin of my teeth.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— My bone cleaueth to my skinne and to my flesh, and I haue escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— My bone cleaueth to my skinne, and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— My skin and my flesh cleave to my bones, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in [my] teeth.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
My bone 6106
{6106} Prime
עֶצֶם
`etsem
{eh'-tsem}
From H6105; a bone (as strong); by extension the body; figuratively the substance, that is, (as pronoun) selfsame.
cleaveth 1692
{1692} Prime
דָּבַק
dabaq
{daw-bak'}
A primitive root; properly to impinge, that is, cling or adhere; figuratively to catch by pursuit.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
to my skin 5785
{5785} Prime
עוֹר
`owr
{ore}
From H5783; skin (as naked); by implication hide, leather.
and to my flesh, 1320
{1320} Prime
בָּשָׂר
basar
{baw-sawr'}
From H1319; flesh (from its freshness); by extension body, person; also (by euphemism) the pudenda of a man.
and I am escaped 4422
{4422} Prime
מָלַט
malat
{maw-lat'}
A primitive root; properly to be smooth, that is, (by implication) to escape (as if by slipperiness); causatively to release or rescue; specifically to bring forth young, emit sparks.
z8691
<8691> Grammar
Stem - Hithpael (See H8819)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 533
with the skin 5785
{5785} Prime
עוֹר
`owr
{ore}
From H5783; skin (as naked); by implication hide, leather.
of my teeth. 8127
{8127} Prime
שֵׁן
shen
{shane}
From H8150; a tooth (as sharp); specifically (for H8143) ivory; figuratively a cliff.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Job 19:20

_ _ 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 bare life; I am whole only with the skin of my teeth; that is, my gums alone are whole, the rest of the skin of my body is broken with sores (Job 7:5; Psalms 102:5). Satan left Job his speech, in hope that he might therewith curse God.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Job 19:8-22.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 19:20

Skin — Immediately, the fat and flesh next to the skin being consumed. As — As closely as it doth to these remainders of flesh which are left in my inward parts.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Job 19:20

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

(k) Besides these great losses and most cruel unkindness, he was touched in his own person as follows.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
bone:

Job 30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job 33:19-22 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]: ... Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Psalms 22:14-17 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. ... I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
Psalms 32:3-4 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. ... For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
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.
Psalms 102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
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.

and to:
or, as

and I am:

Job 2:4-6 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. ... And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in thine hand; but save his life.
Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Lamentations 3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Jb 2:4; 7:5; 30:30; 33:19. Ps 22:14; 32:3; 38:3; 102:3, 5. Lm 3:4; 4:8; 5:10.

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