Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

New American Standard Bible

My knees are weak from fasting,
And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

King James Version

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

Holman Bible

My knees are weak from fasting,
and my body is emaciated.

International Standard Version

My knees give way from fasting, and my skin is lean, deprived of oil.

A Conservative Version

My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness.

American Standard Version

My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.

Amplified


My knees are unsteady from fasting;
And my flesh is gaunt and without fatness.

Darby Translation

My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;

Julia Smith Translation

My knees were weak from fasting, and my flesh failed from fatness.

King James 2000

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh lacks fatness.

Lexham Expanded Bible

My knees {buckle} from fasting, and my body grows lean without fat.

Modern King James verseion

My knees stumble from fasting; and my flesh is losing its fatness.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My knees are weak through fasting; my flesh is dried up for want of fatness.

NET Bible

I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.

New Heart English Bible

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

The Emphasized Bible

My knees, tremble from fasting, and, my flesh, faileth of fatness:

Webster

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

World English Bible

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

Youngs Literal Translation

My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Prayer Against An Enemy

23 I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust. 24 My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones. 25 As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.

Cross References

Hebrews 12:12

For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,

Job 19:20

My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

Psalm 22:14

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

Psalm 35:13-14

But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.

Psalm 69:10

My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.

Matthew 4:2

And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.

2 Corinthians 11:27

In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

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