For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
Parallel translations
- KJV For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
- BSB For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
- NKJV For my loins are full of inflammation, And there is no soundness in my flesh.
- NASB For my sides are filled with burning, And there is no healthy part in my flesh.
- NLT A raging fever burns within me, and my health is broken.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 102:3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.
- 2 Chr 21:18–19After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
- Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
- Ps 41:8“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
- Job 30:18By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
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