Summary
Translators have struggled with the meaning of this verse (especially its second part). Job is giving a description of his disease. It has emaciated him. It also seems to have caused tooth loss: only the skin of my teeth
is left.
Translators have struggled with the meaning of this verse (especially its second part). Job is giving a description of his disease. It has emaciated him. It also seems to have caused tooth loss: only the skin of my teeth
is left.
20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.