Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
In Context
6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Cross References
Job 2:7So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
Job 13:28Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 17:14if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
Job 19:26And after my skin, this [body], is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,
Job 30:18By the great force my garment is disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
Psalms 38:6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long.
Matthew Henry on Job 7:2-7
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling? 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my… Read the whole commentary →