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Job 19:20 KJV
Job · chapter 19 · verse 20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.Job 19:20 · King James Version
Job 19:20 in context
18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- cleavethdâbaqproperly, to impingeH1692 →
- escapedmâlaṭproperly, to be smoothH4422 →
- fleshbâsârfleshH1320 →
- boneʻetsema boneH6106 →
- skinʻôwrskinH5785 →
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Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job's complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon their good nature, if they had any left in them. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-22