“My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Job 19 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.