ב (Bet)
3:4 He has made my mortal skin 1 waste away;
he has broken my bones.
5:10 Our skin is hot as an oven
due to a fever from hunger. 2
1 tn Heb “my flesh and my skin.” The two nouns joined with ו (vav), בְשָׂרִי וְעוֹרִי (basari vÿ’ori, “my flesh and my skin”), form a nominal hendiadys: the first functions adjectivally and the second retains its full nominal sense: “my mortal skin.”
2 tn Heb “because of the burning heat of famine.”