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Job 30

Job 30:30

Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity · Job 30:15–31
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Translations

Modern
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
Traditional
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Literal
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bone burns with heat.
Latin
Cutis mea denigrata est super me, et ossa mea aruerunt præ caumate.

Original

Hebrew
English
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

Notes

Job 30:30

People with a comfortable life had skin protected from the sun and wind. Dark skin suggested physical and social decline (Lamentations 4:8; 5:10).

Job 29:1–31:40

Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).

Events

Glossary

Black Bone Book of Job God, Names of

Topics

Blackness: Figurative Fever: General Scriptures Concerning