Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with particles of rottenness and filth; my skin is dried up and tightened.

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In The King James Version

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

In Context

4If I lie down to sleep, I will say, “When will I rise?” And next I will hope for the evening and will be filled with sorrows even until darkness.

6My days have passed by more quickly than threads are cut by a weaver, and they have been consumed without any hope.

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Cross References

Job 2:7And so, Satan departed from the face of the Lord and he struck Job with a very serious ulcer from the sole of the foot all the way to the crown of his head.

Job 13:28I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths.

Job 17:14I have said to decay and to worms: “You are my father, my mother, and my sister.”

Job 19:26And I will be enveloped again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.

Job 30:18By the sheer number of them my clothing is worn away, and they have closed in on me like the collar of my coat.

Psalms 38:6Behold, you have made my days measurable, and, before you, my substance is as nothing. Yet truly, all things are vanity: every living man.

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 →

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