<p class="poetry">Because of the anxiety that makes me groan,p> <p class="poetry">my bones protrude from my skin.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">My bones stick to my skin and my flesh;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have escaped<n id="2" /> alive<n id="3" /> with only the skin of my teeth.p>

<p class="poetry">Night pierces<n id="1" /> my bones;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">my gnawing pains<n id="3" /> never cease.p>

<p class="poetry">When I refused to confess my sin,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my whole body wasted away,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">while I groaned in pain all day long.p>

Then Laban said to him, &#8220;You are indeed my own flesh and blood.&#8221;<n id="1" /> So Jacob<n id="2" /> stayed with him for a month.<n id="3" />p>

You are my brothers &#8211; my very own flesh and blood!<n id="1" /> Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?&#8217;

<p class="poetry">Have mercy on me,<n id="1" /> <sc>Lordsc>, for I am frail!p> <p class="poetry">Heal me, <sc>Lordsc>, for my bones are shaking!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">my bones were not hidden from you,p> <p class="poetry">when<n id="1" /> I was made in secretp> <p class="poetry">and sewed together in the depths of the earth.<n id="2" />p>

Say to Amasa, &#8216;Are you not my flesh and blood?<n id="1" /> God will punish me severely,<n id="2" /> if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!&#8217;&#8221;p>