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 heated like an oven because of our burning heat from the need of food.
Job 30:17
The night racks my bones, and the pain that eats at me takes 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, a city laid waste! The hearts melt and the knees knock together. There is pain in all the hips and their faces have all grown pale.
Their skin
Job 19:20
My bones cling to my skin. I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth (with almost nothing).
Job 33:21
His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his bones, once hidden, now stick out.
Psalm 32:4
Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength drained in the summer heat.
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.
Psalm 119:83
Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your statutes.