Parallel Verses
Amplified
“By the great force [of my disease] my garment (skin) is disfigured and blemished;
It binds about me [choking me] like the collar of my coat.
New American Standard Bible
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
King James Version
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Holman Bible
He chokes me by the neck of my garment.
International Standard Version
My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.
A Conservative Version
By the great force my garment is disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
American Standard Version
By God's great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Bible in Basic English
With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.
Darby Translation
By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
Julia Smith Translation
By the multitude of power my clothing will be disguised: it will gird me about as the mouth of my coat
King James 2000
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He seizes my clothing with {great power}; he grasps me by my tunic's collar.
Modern King James verseion
By the great force of my disease my clothing is exposed; it binds me about like the mouth of my coat.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
With all their power have they changed my garment, and girded me therewith, as it were with a coat.
NET Bible
With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.
New Heart English Bible
By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
The Emphasized Bible
Most effectually, is my skin disfigured, - Like the collar of my tunic, it girdeth me about:
Webster
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
World English Bible
By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
Youngs Literal Translation
By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.
Interlinear
Koach
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 30:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
17
“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
“By the great force [of my disease] my garment (skin) is disfigured and blemished;
It binds about me [choking me] like the collar of my coat.
“God has cast me into the mire [a swampland of crisis],
And I have become [worthless] like dust and ashes.
Names
Cross References
Job 2:7
So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome boils and agonizingly painful sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
Job 7:5
“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;
My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.
Job 19:20
“My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
And I have escaped [death] by the skin of my teeth.
Psalm 38:5
My wounds are loathsome and foul
Because of my foolishness.
Isaiah 1:5-6
Why should you be stricken and punished again [since no change results from it]?
You [only] continue to rebel.
The whole head is sick
And the whole heart is faint and sick.