Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
ASV Byzantine Text
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 Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job 13:28Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 17:14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
Job 19:26And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;
Job 30:18By God’s great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth 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 →