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Job 7:5
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
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 am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates. 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. 7Remember thou that my life is wind; mine eye shall no more see good.
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לָ֘בַ֤שׁ בְּשָׂרִ֣י רִ֭מָּה וְג֣וּשׁ עָפָ֑ר עוֹרִ֥י רָ֝גַ֗ע וַיִּמָּאֵֽס׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 7:5
- Job 2:7And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah; and he smote Job with a grievous botch from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
- Job 17:14I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!
- Job 19:26And [if] after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see God;
- Job 24:20The womb forgetteth him; the worm feedeth sweetly on him: he shall be no more remembered; and unrighteousness is broken as a tree, —
- Job 30:18By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.
- Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.
- Isaiah 14:11— Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
- Acts 12:23And immediately an angel of [the] Lord smote him, because he did not give the glory to God, and he expired, eaten of worms.
- Job 9:31Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
- Isaiah 66:24And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence unto all flesh.
- Ezekiel 20:43And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils which ye have committed.
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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