Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
Darby Translation
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 2:7And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah; and he smote Job with a grievous botch from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job 13:28One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
Job 17:14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
Job 19:26And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see God;
Job 30:18By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
Psalms 38:6I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.
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 →