Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust, my skin is withered and drawn together.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
In Context
Cross References
Job 2:7So Satan went forth from the presence Of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:
Job 13:28Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 17:14If I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.
Job 19:26And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I will see my God.
Job 30:18With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.
Psalms 38:6My sores are putrified and corrupted, because of my foolishness.
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 →