My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
The verse describes extreme bodily wasting in which bone clings to skin and to flesh, leaving the sufferer barely alive, and this suffering sets the stage for his later confidence that he will see God even after his body is destroyed. It belongs to Job's lament over intense suffering and abandonment, in which amid anguish and perplexity he remains conscious of his integrity and holds fast to faith in God. It pictures a rescue so narrow it is barely an escape, like being pulled from a lion's jaws and like a bird taken from a fowler's snare.
It means God reaches after a person in darkness, patiently endures with him, and extends His arm into the dark place to bring him into light so he can recognize the darkness he had been in. For the one so rescued, it calls for taking back his work at Hamilton and making square work for eternity, because his soul is worth more than ten thousand worlds like this. Even after such a rescue, all wrong work must be taken back before progress can be gained and square work for eternity must be made, because the soul is worth more than ten thousand worlds like this.
The verse describes extreme bodily wasting in which bone clings to skin and to flesh, leaving the sufferer barely alive, and this suffering sets the stage for his later confidence that he will see God even after his body is destroyed. It belongs to Job's lament over intense suffering and abandonment, in which amid anguish and perplexity he remains conscious of his integrity and holds fast to faith in God. It pictures a rescue so narrow it is barely an escape, like being pulled from a lion's jaws and like a bird taken from a fowler's snare.
It means God reaches after a person in darkness, patiently endures with him, and extends His arm into the dark place to bring him into light so he can recognize the darkness he had been in. For the one so rescued, it calls for taking back his work at Hamilton and making square work for eternity, because his soul is worth more than ten thousand worlds like this. Even after such a rescue, all wrong work must be taken back before progress can be gained and square work for eternity must be made, because the soul is worth more than ten thousand worlds like this.