You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness;
    my gauntness(A) rises up and testifies against me.(B)

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And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

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20 I am nothing but skin and bones;(A)
    I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:20 Or only by my gums

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

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21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,(A) once hidden, now stick out.(B)

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21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

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In my distress I groan aloud(A)
    and am reduced to skin and bones.

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By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

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

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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.

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