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Job 7:5

SufferingSickness and healing

3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 14:11

    Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

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  • Job 17:14

    I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

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  • Job 2:7–8

    So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

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  • Isaiah 1:6

    From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

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  • Acts 12:23

    And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

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  • Isaiah 66:24

    And 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 abhorring unto all flesh.

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  • Job 30:18–19

    By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

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  • Psalms 38:5–7

    My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

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