My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.
Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.
“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones, so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food. His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death.
Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet— I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.” And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.”
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