Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 such as were my most familiars, abhor me: And they whom I loved best, are turned against me. 20 My bone hangeth to my skin, and my flesh is away; there is left me only the skin about my teeth. 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends! For the hand of God hath touched me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 102:5
For the voice of my groaning, my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh.
Lamentations 4:8
{Khet} But now their faces are very black: Insomuch, that thou shouldest not know them in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; It is withered, and become like a dry stock.
Job 2:4-6
Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Skin for skin? Yea, a man will give all that ever he hath, for his life.
Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms, filthiness and dust; my skin is withered, and crumpled together;
Job 30:30
My skin upon me is turned to black, and my bones are burnt with heat;
Job 33:19-22
"He chasteneth him with sickness, and bringeth him to his bed: he layeth sore punishment upon his bones,
Psalm 22:14-17
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax.
Psalm 32:3-4
For while I held my tongue, my bones consumed away through my daily complaining.
Psalm 38:3
There is no health in my flesh, because of thy displeasure; neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin.
Psalm 102:3
For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand.
Lamentations 3:4
{Beth} My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is as it had been burnt in an oven, for very sore hunger.