My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
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Gill's Exposition
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me,.... Instead of calumny and censure, his case called for compassion; and the phrase is doubled, to denote the vehemence of his affliction, the ardency of his soul,…
Barnes' Notes
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh - The meaning of this probably is, “my skin and flesh are dried up so that the bone seems adhere to the skin, and so tht the form of the bone becomes…
Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job's complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon…
Cambridge Bible
The desertion and loathing of mankind is universal, and to this is added his exhausted state from disease.
My bone cleaveth to my skin The words describe his emaciated condition, cf. Lam 4:8; Psa…
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