Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."
New American Standard Bible
And I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.
King James Version
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Holman Bible
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
A Conservative Version
My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
American Standard Version
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Amplified
“My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh,
And I have escaped [death] by the skin of my teeth.
Bible in Basic English
My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.
Darby Translation
My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Julia Smith Translation
My bone cleaved to my skin and to my flesh, and I shall escape with the skin of my teeth.
King James 2000
My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Modern King James verseion
My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My bone hangeth to my skin, and my flesh is away; there is left me only the skin about my teeth.
NET Bible
My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
New Heart English Bible
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
The Emphasized Bible
Unto my skin and unto my flesh, have my bones cleaved, and I have escaped with the akin of my teeth.
Webster
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
World English Bible
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Youngs Literal Translation
To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
Interlinear
Dabaq
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 19:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
I Am Forgotten
19 My closest friends detest me; even the ones I love have turned against me. 20 I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth." 21 "Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends, because God's hand has struck me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 102:5
Because of the sound of my sighing, my bones cling to my skin.
Lamentations 4:8
Now their faces are blacker than coal; they are unrecognized in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones; it has become dry like a stick.
Job 2:4-6
Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! The man will give up everything that he owns in exchange for his health.
Job 7:5
My skin is covered with worms and clods of dirt; my skin becomes rough and then breaks out afresh.
Job 30:30
My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat.
Job 33:19-22
"He is being reproved by painful bed rest, with continual aching in his bones.
Psalm 22:14-17
I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.
Psalm 32:3-4
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.
Psalm 38:3
My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin.
Psalm 102:3
For my days are vanishing like smoke; my bones are charred as in a fireplace.
Lamentations 3:4
He made my flesh and skin prematurely old; he broke my bones.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.