Job 7:5
My body is covered with maggots and caked in dirt; my skin is cracked, with oozing sores.
Free Bible Version
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 pass quicker than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
Cross References
Job 2:7Then Satan left the Lord's presence and inflicted Job with horrible skin sores from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
Job 13:28I'm falling apart like something rotten, like moth-eaten clothes.
Job 17:14Should I call the grave my father, and the maggot my mother or my sister?
Job 19:26Even though my skin is destroyed, in my body I shall see God.
Job 30:18God grabs me roughly by my clothes; he pulls me by the collar of my shirt.
Psalms 38:6I am bent over, doubled up in pain. The whole day I walk around crying my eyes out.
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 →