Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
My bone cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I shall escape with the skin of my teeth.
New American Standard Bible
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
King James Version
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Holman Bible
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
International Standard Version
I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."
A Conservative Version
My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
American Standard Version
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Amplified
“My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
And I have escaped [death] by the skin of my teeth.
Bible in Basic English
My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.
Darby Translation
My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
King James 2000
My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Modern King James verseion
My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My bone hangeth to my skin, and my flesh is away; there is left me only the skin about my teeth.
NET Bible
My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
New Heart English Bible
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
The Emphasized Bible
Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.
Webster
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
World English Bible
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Youngs Literal Translation
To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
Interlinear
Dabaq
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 19:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
I Am Forgotten
19 All the men of my intimacy will abhor me, and those I loved were turned against me. 20 My bone cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I shall escape with the skin of my teeth. 21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, for the hand of God touched upon me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 102:5
From the voice of my groaning my bone did cleave to my flesh.
Lamentations 4:8
Their form dark above blackness; they were not known in the streets: their skin adhered to their bones; it was dried up, it was as wood.
Job 2:4-6
And the adversary will answer Jehovah and say, Skin for skin, and all which is to a man he will give for his soul.
Job 7:5
And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away.
Job 30:30
My skin was black from above me, and my bones burnt from heat
Job 33:19-22
And he was chastened with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones perpetually.
Psalm 22:14-17
I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalm 32:3-4
If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.
Psalm 38:3
For thine arrows came down upon me, and thy hand will press down upon me.
Psalm 102:3
For my days were finished in smoke, and my bones burnt as fuel.
Lamentations 3:4
He wasted away my flesh and my skin; he broke my bones.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was scorched as a furnace from the face of the violent heat of famine.