Job 7:5
My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
Cross References
Job 2:7So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord, and smote Iob with sore boyles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.
Job 13:28Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
Job 17:14I shall say to corruption, Thou art my father, and to the worme, Thou art my mother and my sister.
Job 19:26And though after my skin wormes destroy this bodie, yet shall I see God in my flesh.
Job 30:18For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.
Psalms 38:6I am bowed, and crooked very sore: I goe 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 →