Job 19:20

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

Cross-reference

Job 30:30 Parallel

In Job 30:30, his skin turns black and bones burn — the same physical deterioration described here.

In Job 33:19-22, Elihu describes flesh wasting and bones sticking out — matching Job's condition exactly.

Job 2:5 Parallel

Job 2:5 specifically mentions 'bone and flesh' as the target of affliction, which Job experiences in 19:20.

Job 33:21 Parallel

Job 33:21 echoes Job 19:20 almost verbatim: flesh wasted, bones sticking out — a parallel description of severe emaciation.

Job 7:5 Parallel

Job 7:5 describes flesh covered with worms and skin breaking out, another aspect of the same physical affliction.

In Psalm 22:14-17, the psalmist's bones are out of joint and he can count them — similar extreme physical suffering.

Psalm 102:5 Parallel

Psalm 102:5 uses nearly identical language — 'bones cling to my flesh' — depicting the same extreme wasting as Job.

Lamentations 3:4 says God made flesh and skin waste away and broke bones, directly paralleling Job's decay.

Lamentations 4:8 describes skin shriveling on bones, matching Job's image of bones clinging to skin in emaciation.

Psalm 102:3 Parallel

Psalm 102:3 uses 'bones burn' to depict physical decay, paralleling Job's description of bones clinging to skin.

Psalm 109:24 depicts the psalmist's gaunt body from fasting, similar to Job's skin-and-bones condition.