Job 30:30

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Cross-reference

Job 2:7 Historical context

Job 2:7 records the painful sores that caused the skin blackening and fever Job describes here.

Job 19:20 Parallel

Job 19:20 describes being reduced to skin and bones — the emaciation accompanying Job's skin condition.

Job 13:28 Parallel

Job 13:28 compares human decay to rotting cloth — a similar theme of bodily wasting away.

Lamentations 3:4 describes skin and flesh wasting away under God's hand — directly echoing Job's physical decay.

Lamentations 4:8 depicts skin blackened and shriveled from famine — the same deterioration as Job's blackening and peeling skin.

Lamentations 5:10 says skin is hot as an oven with fever — a direct match to Job's burning body.

Lamentations 1:13 describes fire sent into bones, directly paralleling Job's burning bones — both lament divine judgment.

Psalm 32:4 Parallel

Psalm 32:4 uses heat of summer to describe God's heavy hand — similar to Job's feverish burning.

Psalm 102:3 Parallel

Psalm 102:3 uses bones burning like embers — a metaphor for suffering akin to Job's feverish body.

Psalm 119:83 compares the psalmist to a wineskin blackened in smoke — a similar image of skin darkened by suffering.