The Meaning of Job 30:30 Explained

Job 30:30

KJV: My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

YLT: My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

Darby: My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat.

ASV: My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

My skin  is black  upon me, and my bones  are burned  with heat. 

What does Job 30:30 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Job 30

1  Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15  and his prosperity into calamity

What do the individual words in Job 30:30 mean?

My skin grows black and falls from me and My bones burn with fever
ע֭וֹרִי שָׁחַ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְעַצְמִי־ חָ֝֗רָה מִנִּי־ חֹֽרֶב

ע֭וֹרִי  My  skin 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: עֹור  
Sense: skin, hide.
שָׁחַ֣ר  grows  black 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: שָׁחַר  
Sense: to be black.
מֵעָלָ֑י  and  falls  from  me 
Parse: Preposition-m, first person common singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
וְעַצְמִי־  and  My  bones 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: עֶצֶם 
Sense: bone, essence, substance.
חָ֝֗רָה  burn 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: חָוַר 
Sense: to burn, be hot, be scorched, be charred.
חֹֽרֶב  fever 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: חֹרֶב 
Sense: dryness, desolation, drought, heat.