Job 7:5
My flesh is covered with worms and clods of dust: my skin is burst open, and become loathsome.
Leeser Tanakh
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 2:7Thereupon went the Accuser forth from the presence of the Lord, and he smote Job with a sore inflammation, from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head.
Job 13:28And yet the body decayeth like a rotten thing, as a garment that the moth hath eaten.
Job 17:14When I call to corruption, Thou art my father: Thou art my mother, and my sister, to the worms.
Job 19:26And after my skin is cut to pieces will this be: and then freed from my body shall I behold God;
Job 30:18Through the Almlghty's power is my garment made unknown: like the opening of my coat hath he enclosed me.
Psalms 38:6(38:7) I am bent double; I am bowed down to the utmost; all the day long I go about full of grief.
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 →