Parallel Verses
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.
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 closest friends are disgusted with me. Those I love have turned against me.
20
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 102:5
Because of the loudness of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.
Lamentations 4:8
Their face is blacker than night. In the streets no one has knowledge of them. Their skin is hanging on their bones, and they are dry, they have become like wood.
Job 2:4-6
Satan answered Jehovah: Skin for skin! Certainly, a man will give everything he has for his life.
Job 7:5
My skin is clothed with worms and scabs. My flesh breaks open filled with pus.
Job 30:30
My skin grows black on me and my bones burn with fever.
Job 33:19-22
On the other hand a man may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in his bones.
Psalm 22:14-17
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart has melted within me like wax (I am weak).
Psalm 32:3-4
When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long.
Psalm 38:3
No healthy spot is left on my body because of your rage. There is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
Psalm 102:3
My days have been consumed in smoke, and my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from the need of food.