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Job 19:20
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Job 19:20
20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
20My bone cleaueth to my skinne, ‖and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skinne of my teeth.
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Job 19:20
To split or divide; in a different sense, to cling closely or remain joined.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering; also, to strip off the skin or hide.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The soft substance of the body; also the body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Got free, fled, avoided danger, or passed without harm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The hard structures in the mouth used for biting or chewing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
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Open the full verse study8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
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Open the full verse study19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
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Open the full verse study4And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
6And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
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Open the full verse study30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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Open the full verse study5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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Open the full verse study4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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Open the full verse study10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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Open the full verse study3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
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Open the full verse study14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
17I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
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Open the full verse study3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
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Open the full verse study3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
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