Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with worms, and clods of dust; My skin is broken and become loathsome.
Noyes 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 pass away without hope.
Cross References
Job 2:7Then Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
Job 13:28And I, like an abandoned thing, shall waste away; Like a garment which is moth-eaten.
Job 17:14I say to the pit, Thou art my father! And to the worm, My mother! and, My sister!
Job 19:26And though with my skin this body be wasted away, Yet without my flesh shall I see God.
Job 30:18Through the violence of my disease is my garment changed; It bindeth me about like the collar of my tunic.
Psalms 38:6I am bent; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
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 →