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 blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.
Job 30:17
The night racks my bones; and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest.
Joel 2:6
The people are terrified in their presence; every face grows pale.
Nahum 2:10
Nineveh is devastated, deserted, and desolate. Her heart melts, her knees knock. Every stomach is upset, every face grows pale.
Their skin
Job 19:20
I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."
Job 33:21
His flesh wastes away; his bones, which once couldn't be seen, are visible.
Psalm 32:4
For your hand was heavy upon me day and night; my strength was exhausted as in a summer drought. Interlude
Psalm 38:3
My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin.
Psalm 102:3
For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.
Psalm 119:83
Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.