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, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
Their skin
Job 19:20
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Job 33:21
His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
Psalm 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
Psalm 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalm 102:3
For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
Psalm 119:83
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't forget your statutes.