Job 7:5

My flesh has been clothed [with] worms, || And a clod of dust, || My skin has been shriveled and is loathsome,

Literal Standard 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

4If I lay down, then I have said, When do I rise, || And evening has been measured? And I have been full of tossings until dawn.

6My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.

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Cross References

Job 2:7And Satan goes forth from the presence of YHWH, and strikes Job with a severe ulcer from the sole of his foot to his crown.

Job 13:28And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, || A moth has consumed him as a garment.”

Job 17:14To corruption I have called: You [are] my father. To the worm: My mother and my sister.

Job 19:26And after my skin has surrounded this [body], || Then from my flesh I see God—

Job 30:18By the abundance of power, || Is my clothing changed, || As the mouth of my coat it girds me.

Psalms 38:6I have been bent down, || I have been bowed down—to excess, || I have gone mourning all the day.

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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