Job 30:18
Good News Translation
God seizes me by my collar and twists my clothes out of shape.

New Revised Standard Version
With violence he seizes my garment; he grasps me by the collar of my tunic.

Contemporary English Version
and God has shrunk my skin, choking me to death.

New American Bible
With great difficulty I change my clothes, the collar of my tunic fits around my waist.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.

By the great

Job 2:7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together.

Job 19:20 The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

Psalm 38:5 My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness.

Isaiah 1:5,6 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad. . . .

Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
17In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep. 18With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.19I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.…
Cross References
Leviticus 21:18
Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;

Job 2:7
So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

Job 30:17
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