My eyes have grown dim with grief;(A)
    my whole frame is but a shadow.(B)

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Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

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20 I am nothing but skin and bones;(A)
    I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:20 Or only by my gums

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

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21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,(A) once hidden, now stick out.(B)

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21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

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My eyes grow weak(A) with sorrow;
    they fail because of all my foes.

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Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

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17 All my bones are on display;
    people stare(A) and gloat over me.(B)

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17 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

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    my eyes(A) are dim with grief.

I call(B) to you, Lord, every day;
    I spread out my hands(C) to you.

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Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

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In my distress I groan aloud(A)
    and am reduced to skin and bones.

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By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

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24 My knees give(A) way from fasting;(B)
    my body is thin and gaunt.(C)

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24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

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17 Because of this our hearts(A) are faint,(B)
    because of these things our eyes(C) grow dim(D)

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17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

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