Parallel Verses

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.

Bible in Basic English

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

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 shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down by the wind as the locust. 24 My knees are weak from fasting,
And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.
25 I have become a reproach unto them; when they looked upon me they shook their heads.

Cross References

Hebrews 12:12

Therefore, lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

Job 19:20

My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

Psalm 35:13-14

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer rose up in my bosom.

Psalm 38:5-8

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

Psalm 69:10

When I wept with fasting of my soul, thou hast been a reproach unto me.

Psalm 102:4-5

My heart is smitten and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread.

Matthew 4:2

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labour and travail, in many watches, in hunger and thirst, in many fasts, in cold and nakedness.

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