Job 33:21
Job 33:21 Meaning and Explanation
“His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →The body wastes until the flesh is gone and bones once hidden now protrude.
What Does Job 33:21 Mean?
The description of decline reaches its starkest point. The flesh melts away until it can hardly be seen, and bones that were never visible before now jut out, the very picture of a body near collapse.
Scripture does not flinch from the body’s frailty. To name our mortality so plainly is not despair but honesty before God. Even as the outward frame wastes, the unseen work of God can be deepening within, and the One who knows our frame remembers that we are dust and does not abandon us in it.
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What does Job 33:21 mean?
The body wastes until the flesh is gone and bones once hidden now protrude.