Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [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.

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.

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 lie down, I say, 'When shall I rise?' But [the] night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn. 5 My body is clothed [with] maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way [again]. 6 "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end {without hope}.

Cross References

Job 17:14

[if] I call to the pit, 'You [are] my father,' to the maggot, '[You are] my mother or my sister,'

Isaiah 14:11

Your pride is brought down [to] Sheol, [and] the sound of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms.

Job 2:7-8

So Satan went out from {Yahweh's presence}, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.

Job 9:31

then you plunge me into the [slime] pit, and my clothes abhor me.

Job 19:26

And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God,

Job 24:20

[The] womb forgets him. [The] maggot feasts on him [until] he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree.

Job 30:18-19

He seizes my clothing with {great power}; he grasps me by my tunic's collar.

Psalm 38:5-7

My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot and up to [the] head there is no health in it; bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed, and they have not been bound up and not softened with the oil.

Isaiah 66:24

"And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people {who have rebelled} against me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."

Ezekiel 20:43

And you will remember there your ways, and all of your deeds {by which you were made unclean}, and you will feel a loathing {for yourself} for all of your evils that you have done.

Acts 12:23

And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down {because} he did not give the glory to God. And he was eaten by worms [and] died.

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