Job 7:5

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“My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.”

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BSBPD

“My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Clothed hath been my flesh <FI>with<Fi> worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 7:5 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 2:7So 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.
  2. Job 9:31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
  3. Job 13:28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
  4. Job 17:7My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
  5. Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
  6. Job 19:20My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
  7. Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
  8. Job 24:20The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
  9. Job 30:18With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
  10. Psalms 38:5My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.
  11. Psalms 38:6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
  12. Isaiah 1:6From 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.
  13. Isaiah 14:11Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
  14. Isaiah 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.”
  15. Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
  16. Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

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