Job 7:5
3 So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
4 When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
7 Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
- KJV
- My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
- WEB
- My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
- ASV
- My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
- DARBY
- My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
- BLB
- My flesh is clothed [with] worm and clod of the dust; my skin breaks and festers.
- ÅB
- Mitt kjøtt er kledd med makk og med skorper som av jord; min hud skrukner og brister.
- OTB
- Mitt kjøtt er dekket med mark og støvklumper,
Min hud herder og sprekker opp. - B1930
- Mitt kjøtt er klædd med makk og med skorper som av jord; min hud skrukner og brister.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 14:11
Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
Read in contextJob 17:14
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Read in contextJob 2:7–8
So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:6
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.
Read in contextActs 12:23
Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
Read in contextIsaiah 66:24
“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.”
Read in contextJob 30:18–19
With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
Read in contextPsalms 38:5–7
My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
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