Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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 go hence like the shadow that departeth, and am driven away as the grasshopper. 24 My knees are weak through fasting; my flesh is dried up for want of fatness. 25 I am become a reproach unto them; they look upon me and shake their heads.

Cross References

Hebrews 12:12

Stretch forth therefore again the hands which were let down, and the weak knees,

Job 19:20

My bone hangeth to my skin, and my flesh is away; there is left me only the skin about my teeth.

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax.

Psalm 32:3-4

For while I held my tongue, my bones consumed away through my daily complaining.

Psalm 35:13-14

Nevertheless, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Psalm 38:5-8

My wounds stink, and are corrupt, through my foolishness.

Psalm 69:10

I wept, and chastened myself with fasting, and that was turned to my reproof.

Psalm 102:4-5

My heart is smitten down, 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, he was afterward a hungered.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labour and travail, in watching often, in hunger, in thirst, in fastings often, in cold and in nakedness.

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