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Skin of your teeth
This saying means to barely escape from a harrowing situation. It comes
from Job 19:20, where God inflicts all sorts of terrible things on one
of those who love him. Poor Job had all his animals stolen, his children
die, his house collapse and his body covered with sores. Job has this
to say; "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped
with the skin of my teeth."
This
from a website visitor:
Very interesting site I must say. However, the description of "skin
of your teeth" is not entirely accurate. After taking a closer look
at the bible you can derive the following conclusions: God did not cause
these terrible occurances to come upon poor Job. God allowed Satan to
test Job's loyaly. Satan taunted God by saying that no man would serve
him unless he was happy and thriving as stated in Job 1:9-11 Notice that
in verse 12 God tells Satan to do whatever he will to Job, but just dont
kill him. Satan does terrible things to Job in an attempt to break him
and make him curse God. Most of the book of Job describes his trails and
his near breakdown but that is irrelevant to this E-mail. Skipping to
the end, at Job 42:10-17 we see that God rewards Job for his faithful
perseverance and gave him much more than he ever had in the beginning.I
just thought you might want to see the history the way the bible originally
tells
it. It kinda hurts to see the evil of Satan blamed on God, you know what
I mean? It makes God sound heartless and cruel which couldn't be more
untrue. Anyway, keep up the good work with the site and all. I like it
a lot!
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