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

“My bone clings to my skin and my flesh,
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

My skin and my flesh cling to my bones;
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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
My bone
עצם 
`etsem 
Usage: 126

דּבק 
Dabaq 
Usage: 54

to my skin
עור 
`owr 
Usage: 99

and to my flesh
בּשׂר 
Basar 
Usage: 270

and I am escaped
מלט 
Malat 
Usage: 95

with the skin
עור 
`owr 
Usage: 99

References

Hastings

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.



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.

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