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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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A Picture of Utter Wasting
Commentators agree that the first half of the verse, "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh," is a graphic description of extreme emaciation. Job's illness has so ravaged his body that he is reduced to what we would call "skin and bones," a mere skeleton where his bones are visible through his skin.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh - The meaning of this probably is, “my skin and flesh are dried up so that the bone see…
19th Century
Anglican
(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<…
Baptist
There is no skin on the teeth, or hardly any, and, therefore, Job means that there was next to nothing of him left, like the skin of his teeth.
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh Or, "as to my flesh" F15 , as Mr. Broughton and others render the words;…
How sorrowful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God? Seared consciences will feel it in the afterlife, but do not fea…
13th Century
Catholic
In the previous discourse, it seems Bildad intended two things. First, he intended to refute Job for his stupidity, pride, and anger ([Reference Jo…
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