Job 7:5 “My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cra…”

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

American Standard Version

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

Geneva Bible 1599

My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Clothed hath been my flesh [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

Bible in Basic English

My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

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Cross references

“flesh”

Job 17:14 Isaiah 14:11 Job 19:26 Job 24:20 Psalm 38:5–7 Isaiah 1:6

Job 17:14 · BSB

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Isaiah 14:11 · BSB

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

Job 19:26 · BSB

Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

Job 24:20 · BSB

The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.

Psalm 38:5–7 · BSB

My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

Isaiah 1:6 · BSB

From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

“loathsome”

Job 9:31 Isaiah 66:24 Ezekiel 20:43

Job 9:31 · BSB

then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

Isaiah 66:24 · BSB

“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

Ezekiel 20:43 · BSB

There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

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