Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And my flesh was clothed with worms, and a clod of dust; my akin was contracted and melted away.
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day. 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 17:14
if I have said to corruption, Thou are my father, to the worm, My mother, and my sister,
Isaiah 14:11
Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of thy viols. The worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
Job 2:7-8
So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
Job 9:31
yet thou will plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
Job 19:26
And after my skin, this [body], is destroyed, then outside my flesh I shall see God,
Job 24:20
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
Job 30:18-19
By the great force my garment is disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
Psalm 38:5-7
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes. They have not been closed nor bound up nor soothed with oil.
Isaiah 66:24
And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me. For their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
Ezekiel 20:43
And there ye shall remember your ways, and all your doings, by which ye have polluted yourselves. And ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
Acts 12:23
And immediately an agent of Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And after becoming worm-eaten, he expired.