Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; 1 the sores in my skin harden up and then dissolve and run afresh. 1

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My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

In Context

4When I lie down, I say to myself, 1 'When will I get up and when will the night be gone?' 1 I am full of tossing to and fro until the day's dawning. 1

6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle; 1 they pass without hope. 1

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Cross References

Job 2:7Then Satan went away from the presence of Yahweh. He struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his feet to his head.

Job 13:28although I am like a rotten thing that wastes away, 1 like a garment that moths have eaten.

Job 17:14and if I have said to the pit, 'You are my father,' 1 and to the worm, 'You are my mother or my sister,' 1

Job 19:26after my skin, that is, this body, is destroyed, 1 then in my flesh I will see God. 1

Job 30:18God's great force has seized my clothing; 1 it wraps around me like the collar of my tunic. 1

Psalms 38:6I am stooped over and humiliated every day; 1 I go about mourning all day long. 1

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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