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Job 19:20 — My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

bone		Job 30:30; Job 33:19-22; Psa 22:14-17; Psa 32:3,4; Psa 38:3; Psa 102:3,5; Lam 4:8
and to		or, as
and I am		Job 2:4-6; Job 7:5; Lam 3:4; Lam 5:10

Correlating Passages

bone

	Job 30:30	My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
	Job 33:19	He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]:
	Job 33:20	So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
	Job 33:21	His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones [that] were not seen stick out.
	Job 33:22	Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
	Psa 22:14	I 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.
	Psa 22:15	My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
	Psa 22:16	For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
	Psa 22:17	I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me.
	Psa 32:3	When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
	Psa 32:4	For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
	Psa 38:3	[There is] no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither [is there any] rest in my bones because of my sin.
	Psa 102:3	For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
	Psa 102:5	By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
	Lam 4:8	Their 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.

and I am

	Job 2:4	And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
	Job 2:5	But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
	Job 2:6	And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in thine hand; but save his life.
	Job 7:5	My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
	Lam 3:4	My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
	Lam 5:10	Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 19:20," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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