KJV King James Version
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
WEB World English Bible
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
ASV American Standard Version
My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,
Surrounding context — Job 30
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31 My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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Lamentations 4:8Their 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.Psalm 102:3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.Psalm 119:83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.Lamentations 5:10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.Lamentations 3:4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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