Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

My knees were weak from fasting, and my flesh failed from 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;

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 As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust. 24 My knees were weak from fasting, and my flesh failed from fatness. 25 And I was a reproach to them: they will see me and they will shake the head.


Cross References

Hebrews 12:12

Wherefore set upright the relaxed hands, and palsied knees;

Job 19:20

My bone cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I shall escape with the skin of my teeth.

Psalm 22:14

I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 32:3-4

If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.

Psalm 35:13-14

And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom.

Psalm 38:5-8

For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me.

Psalm 69:10

And I will weep with fasting of my soul, and it will be for reproaches to me.

Psalm 102:4-5

My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.

Matthew 4:2

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

2 Corinthians 11:27

In fatigue and toil, in watchfulnesses often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

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