(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.
Verse Job 19:20. _MY BONE CLEAVETH TO MY SKIN._] My flesh is entirely wasted away, and nothing but skin and bone left. _I AM ESCAPED WITH THE SKIN OF MY TEETH._] I have had the most narrow escape. I...
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 seems adhere to the skin, and so tht the form of the bone becomes visibl...
CHAPTER 19 JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD _ 1. How long will ye vex my soul? (Job 19:1)_ 2. And I am not heard! (Job 19:7) 3. Forsaken of men he pleads to be pitied (Job 19:13) 4. Faith supreme ...
JOB 19. JOB'S ANSWER. Here the gradual progress of Job's soul towards faith reaches its climax (Job 19:25 f.). It is to be remembered that Job's problem is in reality twofold: it has a personal side,...
THE SKIN OF MY TEETH. the gums. See rendering below....
The desertion and loathing of mankind is universal, and to this is added his exhausted state from disease. _My bone cleaveth to my skin_ The words describe his emaciated condition, cf. Lamentations 4:...
MY BONE CLEAVETH TO MY SKIN, &C.— _My bones pierce through my skin and my flesh, and my teeth slip out from my gums._ Heath and Le Clerc. Chappelow renders the clause, _I am escaped with a torn skin,_...
4. He utters a plea for pity. (Job 19:20-22) TEXT 19:20-22 20 MY BONE CLEAVETH TO MY SKIN AND TO MY FLESH, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye...
_MY BONE CLEAVETH TO MY SKIN AND TO MY FLESH, AND I AM ESCAPED WITH THE SKIN OF MY TEETH._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
JOB'S FIFTH SPEECH In this speech Job repeats his bitter complaints of God's injustice, and man's contemptuous abandonment of one formerly so loved and honoured. He appeals in broken utterances to his...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 19 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...
Job loved his three friends. They came a long way to comfort him (Job 2:11). And they sat with him silently for a long time (Job 2:13). But their speeches did not help him. The friends accused Job. An...
בְּ עֹורִ֣י וּ֭ בִ בְשָׂרִי דָּבְקָ֣ה עַצְמִ֑
XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with te...
“I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH” Job 19:1 In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his...
To this terrible accusation Job replied first with a rebuke and a complaint. He demanded how long they would vex him, and declared that if he had erred, his sin was his own. If they would continue, le...
My bone (k) cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. (k) Besides these great losses and most cruel unkindness, he was touched in his own person as follows....
CHAPTER XIX. _ Teeth. I am like a skeleton, so strangely emaciated, and my flesh corrupted: even my bones are not entire. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "I have escaped with the skin of my teeth." Only my gum...
(8) В¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. (9) He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. (10) He hath destroyed me on every side...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
MY BONE CLEAVETH TO MY SKIN AND TO MY FLESH,.... Or, "as to my flesh" o, as Mr. Broughton and others render the words; as his bones used to stick to his flesh, and were covered with it, now his flesh...
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. Ver. 20. _My bone cleaveth to my skin_] My skin is a bag of bones. I am become a mere skeleton, and may well c...
_My bone_ Or, _bones_, the singular collectively being put for the plural: _cleaveth to my skin_ Namely, immediately, the flesh next to the skin being consumed. The sense is, Afflictions have so waste...
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, he was wasted away to such a degree that his bones showed through his skin and his flesh, AND I AM ESCAPED WITH THE SKIN OF MY TEETH, his gums at least not...
JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...
JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD (vv.1-6). Though Job did not lose his temper at the unjust accusations of Bildad, he shows here that the reproaches of his friends have struck deeply into his soul. "How long w...
AND TO: Or, as...
He continues to lose weight and he has barely eluded death thus far, just by the "skin of his teeth". "The essence is-'I have nothing but my bones and the skin on my teeth'" _(Strauss p. 187)._...
8-22 How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall...
MY BONE, i.e. my bones; the singular collectively put for the plural, as JOB 2:5 PROVERBS 15:30. CLEAVETH TO MY SKIN, to wit, immediately, the fat and flesh next to the skin being consumed. The sense...
Job 19:20 bone H6106 clings H1692 (H8804) skin H5785 flesh H1320 escaped H4422 (H8691) skin H5785 teeth...
Job 19:1. _Then, Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?_ They struck at him with their hard words, as if they were breaking stones on the roadside. We...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His sublime faith. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: We may easily bear the unjust reproaches of men if we live in expectation of the glorious appearance o...
Job 19:3. _These ten times have ye reproached me._ A form of speech which puts a certain number for one less certain. Job had no doubt noticed about ten principal arguments levelled against him. Job 1...
_And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth._ A NARROW ESCAPE Job had it hard. What with boils, and bereavements, and bankruptcy, and a foolish wife, he wished he was dead. His flesh was gone, and hi...
_Then Job answered and said._ COMPLAINTS AND CONFIDENCES I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and especially their want of sympathy. (1) They exasperated him...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:1 Job responds, asking his friends how long they will persist in accusing him and why they feel no shame for doing so. Even if he has done wrong, it is God who has brought about his...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:20 BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH. Job has narrowly ESCAPED death. ⇐...
NOTES Job 19:23. “_O that my words were now written!_” The “words” understood as either— (1) _Those now to be uttered_. So JEROME, PISCATOR, CARYL, HENRY, &c. As an everlasting monument of his faith...
EXPOSITION JOB 19:1 Job begins his answer to Bildad's second speech by an expostulation against the unkindness of his friends, who break him in pieces, and torture him, with their reproaches (verses...
Then Job answered and said, How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with your words? These ten times you have reproached me: and you're not ashamed that you made yourself like a stranger...
Job 2:4; Job 30:30; Job 33:19; Job 7:5; Lamentations 3:4;...
CALVARY FOREGLEAMS IN JOB Job 19:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The story of Calvary is the story of the whole Bible. The Cross is not a message relegated to the Four Gospels and brought out therein merely...
Skin — Immediately, the fat and flesh next to the skin being consumed. As — As closely as it doth to these remainders of flesh which are left in my inward parts....