I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
Parallel translations
- KJV I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
- BSB I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.
- ESV I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;
- NKJV I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.
- NASB I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;
- NLT I can count all my bones. My enemies stare at me and gloat.
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Cross-references · 8
- Luke 23:35The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
- Job 33:21His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.
- Luke 23:27A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
- Matt 27:39–41Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
- Isa 52:14Just as many were astonished at you (his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
- Mark 15:29–32Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
- Ps 102:3–5For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- Matt 27:36and they sat and watched him there.
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