Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Their skin
Bible References
Visage
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Job 30:17
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
Joel 2:6
At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces have grown pale.
Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste. And the heart melts, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all have grown pale.
Their skin
Job 19:20
My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Job 33:21
His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen. And his bones that were not seen stick out.
Psalm 32:4
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalm 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalm 102:3
For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
Psalm 119:83
For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes.