Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away.
New American Standard Bible
My skin hardens and runs.
King James Version
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Holman Bible
My skin forms scabs
International Standard Version
My skin is covered with worms and clods of dirt; my skin becomes rough and then breaks out afresh.
A Conservative Version
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
American Standard Version
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
Amplified
“My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust;
My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.
Bible in Basic English
My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
Darby Translation
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
King James 2000
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [again].
Modern King James verseion
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has run afresh.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My flesh is clothed with worms, filthiness and dust; my skin is withered, and crumpled together;
NET Bible
My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.
New Heart English Bible
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
The Emphasized Bible
My flesh is clothed with worms and a coating of dust, My skin, hath hardened, and then run afresh:
Webster
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and become lothsome.
World English Bible
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Youngs Literal Translation
Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
Themes
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
4 If I lay down, and I said, When shall I arise, and the evening be measured? And I was filled with tossings even to the twilight 5 And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away. 6 My days were swift above a weaver's shuttle, and will finish with no more of hope.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 17:14
I called to the pit: Grave, thou my father: and to the worm, My mother, and my sister.
Isaiah 14:11
Thy grandeur was brought down to hades, the sound of thy harps: the worm was spread under thee, and worms covering thee.
Job 2:7-8
And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah, and he will strike Job with an evil burning sore, from the sole of his foot even to his crown.
Job 9:31
Then thou wilt immerse me in the ditch, and my garments abhorred me.
Job 19:26
And after they destroyed my skin, this, and from my flesh I shall see God:
Job 24:20
The womb shall forget him; the worm sucked him; he shall be no more remembered: and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
Job 30:18-19
By the multitude of power my clothing will be disguised: it will gird me about as the mouth of my coat
Psalm 38:5-7
For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot and even to the head, no wholeness in it; a wound and bruise, and a fresh blow: they were not pressed out, and they were not bound up, and they were not softened with oil.
Isaiah 66:24
And they went forth and saw the carcasses of the men transgressing against me: for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they were an abhorrence to all flesh.
Ezekiel 20:43
And ye remembered there your ways, and all your works which ye were defiled in them; and ye shall be wearied in your faces for all your evils which ye did.
Acts 12:23
And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.