Job 19:20

the skin of my teeth. the gums. See rendering below.

Related Commentaries of Job 19:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 t...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 unkindnes...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. My bone cleaveth to my skin - My flesh is entirely wasted aw...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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. Chapp...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 love...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

( 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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1-29 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero u...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” Job 19:1-29 In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 err...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 fr...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 o...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

My bone Or, bones , the singular collectively being put for the plural: cleaveth to my skin Namely, immediately, the flesh next to the skin bein...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. B. C. 1520....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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,...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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, CA...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 19:1-2 . 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 wor...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 abou...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then Job answered and said. Complaints and confidences I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and espec...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 w...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 19:1-18 Job begins his answer to Bildad's second speech by an expostulation against the unkindness of his friends, who break...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of the Neglect he Suffers
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 esca...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 2:4-6 ; Job 30:30 ; Job 33:19-22 ; Job 7:5 ; Lamentations 3:4 ; Lamentations 4:8 ; Lamentations 5:10 ; Psalms 102:3 ; Psalms 102:5 ; Ps...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Calvary Foregleams in Job Job 19:7-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The story of Calvary is the story of the whole Bible. The Cross is not a message r...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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...

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

Related Commentaries of Job 19:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 19:20