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
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."
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
Dabaq
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 19:20
Verse Info
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.
Names
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.