SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:20
Mi piel y mi carne se pegaron a mis huesos; y he escapado con la piel de mis dientes.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 19:20
Verse 20. My bone cleaveth to my skin. ] My flesh is entirely wasted away, and nothing but skin and bone left. I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. ] I have had the most narrow escape. If I still live, it is a thing to be wondered at, my sufferings and privations have been so great. To escape with the skin of the teeth seems to have been a proverbial expression, signifying great difficulty. I had as narrow an escape from death, as the thickness of the enamel on the teeth. I was within a hair's breadth of destruction; see on ver. 11.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-22 - How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do no fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us whic God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations an friends. How uncertain is the friendship of men! but if God be ou Friend, he will not fail us in time of need. What little reason we have to indulge the body, which, after all our care, is consumed by disease it has in itself. Job recommends himself to the compassion of his friends, and justly blames their harshness. It is very distressing to one who loves God, to be bereaved at once of outward comfort and of inward consolation; yet if this, and more, come upon a believer, it does not weaken the proof of his being a child of God and heir of glory.
Original Hebrew
בעורי 5785 ובבשׂרי 1320 דבקה 1692 עצמי 6106 ואתמלטה 4422 בעור 5785 שׁני׃ 8127
