Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped 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."

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.

Julia Smith Translation

My bone cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I shall escape 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 my familiar friends abhor me, and those whom I loved are turned against me. 20 My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

Cross References

Psalm 102:5

Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

Lamentations 4:8

Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

Job 2:4-6

And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

Job 30:30

My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.

Job 33:19-22

He also is chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones,

Psalm 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 within me.

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 102:3

For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.

Lamentations 3:4

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

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