You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit my bones and sinews together.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
- KJV Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
- BSB You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
- NKJV Clothe me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews?
- NASB Clothe me with skin and flesh, And intertwine me with bones and tendons?
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Quick answer
Job recounts how God clothed him with skin and flesh and knit him with bones and sinews. He celebrates God's careful craftsmanship of his body.
Overview
Continuing the imagery of formation, Job describes God assembling his body part by part. This testimony to God's wisdom in creating each person grounds Job's plea for compassion from his Maker. It also affirms the goodness of the body, which God made, redeems, and will raise (1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Philippians 3:21).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Ezek 37:4–8Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.
- Eph 4:16from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
- Job 40:17–18He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
- 2 Cor 5:2–3For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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