Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

My bone clings 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."

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 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 counsel detest me, even this one I loved has turned against me. 20 My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity on me! Have pity on me, my friends! For the hand of God has touched me.

Cross References

Psalm 102:5

Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones hold fast to my skin.

Lamentations 4:8

Their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up; it has become like wood.

Job 2:4-6

And Satan answered Jehovah 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 is broken and has run afresh.

Job 30:30

My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Job 33:19-22

He is also chastened with pain on his bed, and enduring strife in his bones;

Psalm 22:14-17

I am poured out like water, and all My bones are spread apart; My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of My bowels.

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long.

Psalm 38:3

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your anger; nor rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 102:3

For my days go up like smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand.

Lamentations 3:4

He has wasted my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot like an oven because of the fever heat of famine.

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