Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
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.
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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Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light. 5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again. 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 17:14
If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;
Isaiah 14:11
Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
Job 2:7-8
And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.
Job 9:31
Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.
Job 19:26
And ... without my flesh I will see God;
Job 24:20
The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.
Job 30:18-19
With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.
Isaiah 1:6
The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.
Isaiah 66:24
And they will go out to see the dead bodies of the men who have done evil against me: for their worm will ever be living, and their fire will never be put out, and they will be a thing of fear to all flesh.
Ezekiel 20:43
And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.
Acts 12:23
And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.