New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 7:5
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 allotted months of vanity, And nights of trouble are appointed me. 4When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night continues, And I am continually tossing until dawn. My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt, My skin hardens and runs. 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And come to an end without hope. 7“Remember that my life is but breath; My eye will not again see good.
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לָ֘בַ֤שׁ בְּשָׂרִ֣י רִ֭מָּה וְג֣וּשׁ עָפָ֑ר עוֹרִ֥י רָ֝גַ֗ע וַיִּמָּאֵֽס׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 7:5
- Job 2:7Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
- Job 17:14If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’; To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
- Job 19:26Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God;
- Job 24:20A mother will forget him; The worm feeds sweetly till he is no longer remembered. And wickedness will be broken like a tree.
- Job 30:18By a great force my garment is distorted; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds grow foul and fester Because of my folly.
- Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even to the head There is nothing sound in it, Only bruises, welts and raw wounds, Not pressed out or bandaged, Nor softened with oil.
- Isaiah 14:11Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.’
- Acts 12:23And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Job 9:31Yet You would plunge me into the pit, And my own clothes would abhor me.
- Isaiah 66:24“Then they will go forth and look On the corpses of the men Who have transgressed against Me. For their worm will not die And their fire will not be quenched; And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”
- Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all the evil things that 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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