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Job 7:5
5My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.
Context of Job 7:5
3so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me. 4When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’ The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn. My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering. 6“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and they come to an end without hope. 7Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.
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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 went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
- Job 17:14if I say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
- Job 19:26And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
- Job 24:20The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; the wicked are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
- Job 30:18In his great power God becomes like clothing to me; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
- Psalms 38:5My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
- Isaiah 1:6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with olive oil.
- Isaiah 14:11All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.
- Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Job 9:31you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me.
- Isaiah 66:24“And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
- Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your conduct and all the actions by which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil 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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