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


In Context

17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.

19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

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

21 |Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:20I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:20The flesh being consumed. My bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:20My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:20To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:20My bone sticks to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.