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Douay-Rheims Bible

Job 30:30

My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

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:
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,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever.

Contextual Overview

15 I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud. 16 And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me. 17 In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep. 18 With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat. 19 I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes. 20 I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me. 21 Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me. 22 Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me. 23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth. 24 But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

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, which thou goest to possess, is not like the land of Egypt, from whence thou camest out, where, when the seed is sown, waters are brought in to water it after the manner of gardens.
2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold now the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burthensome unto you. For I seek not the things that are yours, but you. For neither ought the children to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
1 Timothy 5:8
But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

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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