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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Job 30:30

"My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blackness;   Fever;   Thompson Chain Reference - Diseases;   Fever;   Health-Disease;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Colour;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Black;   Colors;   Jackal;   Job, the Book of;   Wisdom and Wise Men;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Black;   Burn;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bone;   Color;   Heat;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Black;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Color;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My skin blackens and flakes off,and my bones burn with fever.
Hebrew Names Version
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
King James Version
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
English Standard Version
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
New Century Version
My skin has become black and peels off, as my body burns with fever.
New English Translation
My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.
Amplified Bible
"My skin falls from me in blackened flakes, And my bones are burned with fever.
New American Standard Bible
"My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever.
World English Bible
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My skinne is blacke vpon me, & my bones are burnt with heate.
Legacy Standard Bible
My skin turns black on me,And my bones burn with fever.
Berean Standard Bible
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
Contemporary English Version
My skin is so parched, that it peels right off, and my bones are burning.
Complete Jewish Bible
My skin is black and falling off me, and my bones are burning with heat.
Darby Translation
My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
Easy-to-Read Version
My skin is burned and peeling away. My body is hot with fever.
George Lamsa Translation
My skin has shrunk upon me, and my bones are burned as with heat.
Good News Translation
My skin has turned dark; I am burning with fever.
Lexham English Bible
My skin turns black on me, and my bones burn with heat.
Literal Translation
My skin is blackened on me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My skynne vpo me is turned to black, & my bones are bret wt heate:
American Standard Version
My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
Bible in Basic English
My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.
King James Version (1611)
My skinne is blacke vpon mee, and my bones are burnt with heat.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My skinne vpon me is [turned] to blacke, and my bones are brent with heate.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.
English Revised Version
My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
My skyn was maad blak on me, and my boonys drieden for heete.
Update Bible Version
My skin is black, [and falls] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
Webster's Bible Translation
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
New King James Version
My skin grows black and falls from me; My bones burn with fever.
New Living Translation
My skin has turned dark, and my bones burn with fever.
New Life Bible
My skin becomes black and falls from me. My bones burn because I am sick.
New Revised Standard
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My skin, turned black, and peeled off me, and, my bones, burned with heat:
Douay-Rheims Bible
My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
Revised Standard Version
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
Young's Literal Translation
My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

Contextual Overview

15 "Terrors are turned against me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud. 16 "And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have seized me. 17 "At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing pains take no rest. 18 "By a great force my garment is distorted; It binds me about as the collar of my coat. 19 "He has cast me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes. 20 "I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me. 21 "You have become cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You persecute me. 22 "You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride; And You dissolve me in a storm. 23 "For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting for all living. 24 "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my skin: Psalms 119:83, Lamentations 3:4, Lamentations 4:8, Lamentations 5:10

my bones: Psalms 102:3

Reciprocal: Job 2:7 - sore boils Job 13:28 - And he Job 19:20 - bone Psalms 32:3 - bones Psalms 32:4 - moisture Psalms 39:11 - his beauty Psalms 102:6 - like Song of Solomon 1:6 - because Lamentations 1:13 - above

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 11:10
"For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your foot like a vegetable garden.
2 Corinthians 12:14
Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My skin is black upon me,.... Either through deep melancholy, as may be observed in persons of such a disposition, through grief and trouble; or rather through the force of his disease, the burning ulcers and black scabs with which he was covered, as the Jews were through famine, in their captivity, Lamentations 4:8;

and my bones are burnt with heat; with the heat of a burning fever; which not only made his inwards boil, but reached to his bones, and dried up the marrow of them. Galen says r that bones may become so dry as to be crumbled into sand: the Syriac version is

"my bones are burnt as his who is in a hot wind;''

such as were common in the eastern countries, which killed men at once, and they became as black as a coal s.

r Apud Bartholin. de Cruce, sect. 12. p. 107. s Lamentations 4:8- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My skin is black upon me; - see Job 30:28. It had become black by the force of the disease.

My bones are burnt with heat - The bones, in the Scriptures, are often represented as the seat of pain. The disease of Job seems to have pervaded the whole body. If it was the elephantiasis (see the notes at Job 2:7-8), these effects would be naturally produced.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 30:30. My skin is black — By continual exposure to the open air, and parching influence of the sun.

My bones are burned with heat. — A strong expression, to point out the raging fever that was continually preying upon his vitals.


 
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