Job 7:5

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Summary

Job 7:5

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

Flesh

Loathsome

Job 9:31

Isaiah 66:24

Ezekiel 20:43

Bible References

Flesh

So the accuser went forth from the presence of Yahweh, - and smote Job with a sore boil, from the sole of his foot, unto his crown.

To corruption, have exclaimed, My father, thou! My mother! and My sister! to the worm.

And, though, after my skin is struck off, this followeth , yet, apart from my flesh, shall I see GOD:

Maternal love shall forget him, the worm shall find him sweet, No more shall he be remembered, but perversity shall be shivered like a tree.

Most effectually, is my skin disfigured, - Like the collar of my tunic, it girdeth me about:

My wounds are of bad odour - they have festered, by reason of my folly:

From the sole of the foot even unto the head, there is in it no soundness, Bruise and stripe and newly-made wound, - They have not been pressed out, nor bound up, nor soothed with oil.

Brought down to Hades, thy pride. The hum of thy harps, Beneath thee, is spread out corruption, And, thy coverlet - worms!

And, instantly, there smote him, a messenger of the Lord, because he gave not the glory unto God; and, becoming worm-eaten, he expired.

Loathsome

Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:

Then shall they go forth and look upon the dead bodies of the men who had been trespassing against me - For, their worm, shall not die, And, their fire, shall not be quenched; So shall they become an abhorrence to all flesh.

Then shall ye call to mind. there, your own ways and all your own doings, where- with ye had defiled yourselves,- And ye stroll become loathsome in your own sight, for all your wickednesses, which ye have done.