Job 30:30
Good News Translation
My skin has turned dark; I am burning with fever.

New Revised Standard Version
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

Contemporary English Version
My skin is so parched, that it peels right off, and my bones are burning.

New American Bible
My blackened skin falls away from me; my very frame is scorched by the heat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

my skin

Psalm 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

Lamentations 3:4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Lamentations 4:8 Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

Lamentations 5:10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

my bones

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

Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
29I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches. 30My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.31My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.…
Cross References
Job 2:7
So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

Job 17:14
I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

Job 30:17
In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.

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

Psalm 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

Lamentations 1:13
Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.

Lamentations 4:8
Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

Lamentations 5:10
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

Habakkuk 3:16
I have heard and my bowels were troubled: my lips trembled at the voice. Let rottenness enter into my bones, and swarm under me. That I may rest in the day of tribulation: that I may go up to our people that are girded.

Job 30:29
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