Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
King James Version
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Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. {blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness}
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; {yet} do I not forget thy statutes.
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; {yet} do I not forget thy statutes.
So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate {and} faint all the day.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}
Look not upon me, because I {am} black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; {but} mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. {blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness}
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. {and to: or, as to}
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah. {his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away}
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
I have said to corruption, Thou {art} my father: to the worm, {Thou art} my mother, and my sister. {said: Heb. cried, or, called}