Job Chapter 19 verse 20 Holy Bible
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.
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My bones cleave to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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To my skin and to my flesh Cleaved hath my bone, And I deliver myself with the skin of my teeth.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 20. - My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh. Here the third source of Job's misery is brought forward - his painful and incurable disease. This has brought him to such a pitch of emaciation that his bones seem to adhere to the tightened skin, and the scanty and shrunken muscles, that cover them (comp. Job 33:21 and Lamentations 4:8). Such emaciation of the general frame is quite compatible with the unsightly swelling of certain parts of the body which characterizes elephantiasis. And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. The expression is, no doubt, proverbial, and signifies "barely escaped;" but its origin is obscure.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20) My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh in one indistinguishable mass, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth, because the teeth have no skin, or, as others explain, because the teeth have fallen out. This expression, which is by no means clear in the context, has passed into a proverb expressive of a very narrow escape--a meaning which can only by inference be obtained from this place in Job.
