Lamentations 4:8

WEB

⁸Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.

KJV

⁸Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

BSB

⁸^[+] But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.

FBV

⁸^[+] But now they look blacker than soot; no one recognizes them in the street. Their skin has shrunk to their bones and is as dry as wood.

Extra References

Lamentations 5:10

¹⁰Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

Job 30:30

³⁰My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

Psalms 102:3-5

³For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch. ⁴My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. ⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

Job 19:20

²⁰My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Psalms 119:83

⁸³For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

Job 2:12

¹²When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

Psalms 102:11

¹¹My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Ruth 1:19-20

¹⁹So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”

²⁰She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi.^[+] Call me Mara,^[+] for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Psalms 38:3

³There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

Joel 2:6

⁶At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.