Hiob 33:21

21 Sein Fleisch verschwindet, daß man's nimmer sehen kann; und seine Gebeine werden zerschlagen, daß man sie nicht gerne ansieht,

Hiob 33:21 Meaning and Commentary

Job 33:21

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen
All being gone, none left to be seen, nothing but skin and bones; and this partly through the vehemence of strong pain, and partly through the nausea of food; not being able to take anything for nourishment and the support of the fluids, and so quite emaciated:

and his bones [that] were not seen stick out:
which before were covered with flesh and fat, so that they could not be seen; but now the flesh and fat being wasted, they seem as if they rose up in an eminence, and stood out to be beheld; this was also Job's case, being reduced to a mere skeleton, ( Job 19:20 ) . Elihu, in this description of an afflicted man, seems to have Job chiefly in view, and by this would intimate to him that God had been, and was speaking to him by those afflictions, which he would do well to advert unto.

Hiob 33:21 In-Context

19 Auch straft er ihn mit Schmerzen auf seinem Bette und alle seinen Gebeine heftig

20 und richtet ihm sein Leben so zu, daß ihm vor seiner Speise ekelt, und seine Seele, daß sie nicht Lust zu essen hat.

21 Sein Fleisch verschwindet, daß man's nimmer sehen kann; und seine Gebeine werden zerschlagen, daß man sie nicht gerne ansieht,

22 daß seine Seele naht zum Verderben und sein Leben zu den Toten.

23 So dann für ihn ein Engel als Mittler eintritt, einer aus tausend, zu verkündigen dem Menschen, wie er solle recht tun,