A moment in scripture
Job 19:20
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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 19:18
Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
- Job 19:19
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
- Job 19:21
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
- Job 19:22
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.