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 are waxed pale.
Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
Their skin
Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am 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; Neither 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 am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.