Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have 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.
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.
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.
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 intimate friends} abhor me, and these [whom] I have loved have turned against me. 20 My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. 21 "Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 102:5
Because of the sound of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.
Lamentations 4:8
[Now] their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood.
Job 2:4-6
Then Satan answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that {that} man has he will give for his life.
Job 7:5
My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [again].
Job 30:30
My skin turns black on me, and my bones burn with heat.
Job 33:19-22
"And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even [with] the strife of his bones continually,
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 silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.
Psalm 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalm 102:3
for my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth.
Lamentations 3:4
He has worn out my flesh and skin, he has broken my bones.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine.