Job 19:20

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Job 19:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

19 All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.

20 My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

22 Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 30:30

My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

Job 33:19

A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

Job 33:20

so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

Job 33:21

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.

Job 33:22

He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

Psalms 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

Psalms 22:15

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.

Psalms 22:16

For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalms 22:17

I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

Psalms 32:3

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Psalms 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Psalms 38:3

There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

Psalms 102:3

For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.

Psalms 102:5

Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.

Lamentations 4:8

But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

Job 2:4

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

Job 2:5

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

Job 2:6

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

Lamentations 3:4

He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.