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 flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt,
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 flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt.
My skin forms scabs and then oozes.

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
My flesh
בּשׂר 
Basar 
Usage: 270

is clothed
לבשׁ לבשׁ 
Labash 
Usage: 111

with worms
רמּה 
Rimmah 
Usage: 7

and clods
גּישׁ גּוּשׁo 
Guwsh 
Usage: 1

of dust
עפר 
`aphar 
Usage: 110

my skin
עור 
`owr 
Usage: 99

is broken
רגע 
Raga` 
Usage: 13

References

American

Job

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

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.

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.

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