Christian Standard Bible
Job 7:5
5My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt. My skin forms scabs and then oozes.
Job 7:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
- New International Version (NIV)My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My flesh is caked with worms and dust, My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh.
Context of Job 7:5
3So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me. 4When I lie down I think, “When will I get up?” But the evening drags on endlessly, and I toss and turn until dawn. My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt. My skin forms scabs and then oozes. 6My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. 7Remember that my life is but a breath. My eye will never again see anything good.
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לָ֘בַ֤שׁ בְּשָׂרִ֣י רִ֭מָּה וְג֣וּשׁ עָפָ֑ר עוֹרִ֥י רָ֝גַ֗ע וַיִּמָּאֵֽס׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 7:5
- Job 2:7So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
- Job 17:14and say to corruption, “You are my father,” and to the maggot, “My mother” or “My sister,”
- Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet I will see God in my flesh.
- Job 24:20The womb forgets them; worms feed on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.
- Job 30:18My clothing is distorted with great force; he chokes me by the neck of my garment.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.
- Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even to the head, no spot is uninjured — wounds, welts, and festering sores not cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
- Isaiah 14:11Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.”
- Acts 12:23At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Job 9:31then you dip me in a pit of mud, and my own clothes despise me!
- Isaiah 66:24“As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never go out, and they will be a horror to all humanity.”
- Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your ways and all your deeds by which you have defiled yourself, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil things you have done.
Commentaries on Job 7:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5My flesh is clothed with worms - This is perhaps no figure, but is literally true: the miserably ulcerated state of his body, exposed to the open air, and in a state of great destitution, was favorable to those insects that sought such places in which to deposit their ova, which might have produced the animals in question. But the figure is too horrid to be farther illustrated. Clods of dust - I believe all the commentators have here missed the sense. I…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5My flesh is clothed with worms - Job here undoubtedly refers to his diseased state, and this is one of the passages by which we may learn the nature of his complaint; compare the notes at Job 2:7. There is reference here to the worms which are produced in ulcers and in other forms of disease. Michaelis remarks that such effects are produced often in the elephantiasis. Bochart, Hieroz. P. II, Lib. IV. c. xxvi. pp. 619621, has abundantly proved that such…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Job's mention of worms symbolized the human fate of death and the widespread corruption in Sheol (25:6; 17:14; 21:26; 24:20; see Isaiah 14:11).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. In elephantiasis maggots are bred in the sores (Ac 12:23; Is 14:11). clods of dust--rather, a crust of dried filth and accumulated corruption (Job 2:7, 8). my skin is broken and ... loathsome--rather, comes together so as to heal up, and again breaks out with running matter [Gesenius]. More simply the Hebrew is, "My skin rests (for a time) and (again) melts away" (Psa 58:7).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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