Job 7:5
My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
Bible in Basic English
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 go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Cross References
Job 2:7And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.
Job 13:28Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Job 17:14If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Job 19:26And ... without my flesh I will see God;
Job 30:18With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.
Psalms 38:6\38:5\My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour.
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 →