Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by 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.
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.
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 My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me. 20 I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth." 21 "Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.
Cross References
Psalm 102:5
Because of the sound of my sighing, my bones cling to my skin.
Lamentations 4:8
Now their faces are blacker than coal; they are unrecognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become dry like a stick.
Job 2:4-6
Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! The man will give up everything that he owns in exchange for his health.
Job 7:5
My skin is covered with worms and clods of dirt; my skin becomes rough and then breaks out afresh.
Job 30:30
My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat.
Job 33:19-22
"He is being reproved by painful bed rest, with continual aching in his bones.
Psalm 22:14-17
I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.
Psalm 32:3-4
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.
Psalm 38:3
My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin.
Psalm 102:3
For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.
Lamentations 3:4
He made my flesh and skin prematurely old; he broke my bones.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.