Job 33:21
Good News Translation
Their bodies waste away to nothing; you can see all their bones;

New Revised Standard Version
Their flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen; and their bones, once invisible, now stick out.

Contemporary English Version
and we become so skinny that our bones stick out.

New American Bible
His flesh is wasted, it cannot be seen; bones, once invisible, appear;

Douay-Rheims Bible
His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.

His flesh

Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together.

Job 13:28 Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.

Job 14:20,22 Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away. . . .

Job 19:20 The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

Psalm 32:3,4 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. . . .

Psalm 39:11 Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Psalm 102:3-5 For my days are vanished like smoke, and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire. . . .

Proverbs 5:11 Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,

his bones

Psalm 22:15-17 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue hath cleaved to my jaws: and thou hast brought me down into the dust of death. . . .

Context
Elihu Rebukes Job
20Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired. 21His flesh shall be consumed away, and his bones that were covered shall be made bare.22His soul hath drawn near to corruption, and his life to the destroyers.…
Cross References
Job 16:8
But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.

Job 19:20
The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

Psalm 22:17
They have numbered all my bones. And they have looked and stared upon me.

Psalm 102:5
Through the voice of my groaning, my bone hath cleaved to my flesh.

Job 33:20
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