Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
Majority Standard Bible
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; they come to an end without hope.
Cross References
Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
Job 30:18With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
Psalms 38:6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
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 →