Job 7:5

And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Whenever I lie down, I say, When will it be day? and whenever I rise up, again I say when will it be evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.

6And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

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Cross References

Job 2:7So the devil went out from the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from his feet to his head.

Job 13:28I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.

Job 17:14I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption to be my mother and sister.

Job 19:26and to raise up upon the earth my skin that endures these sufferings: for these things have been accomplished to me of the Lord;

Job 30:18With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.

Psalms 38:6Behold, thou hast made my days + 38:6 Alex. a span long.old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.

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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