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

“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 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

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 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.



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.

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