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Job 19:20

World English Bible

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

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Job 19:20 in other translations

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

Job 19:20 · American Standard Version

Job 19:20 in context

  1. 18Even young children despise me.
    If I arise, they speak against me.
  2. 19All my familiar friends abhor me.
    They whom I loved have turned against me.
  3. 20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.
    I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
  4. 21“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends;
    for the hand of God has touched me.
  5. 22Why do you persecute me as God,
    and are not satisfied with my flesh?