Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has run afresh.

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

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 am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day. 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has run afresh. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are ended without hope.


Cross References

Job 17:14

I have said to corruption, You are my father; to the worm, My mother and my sister!

Isaiah 14:11

Your pride is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your harps. The maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

Job 2:7-8

And Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah and struck Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.

Job 9:31

yet You will plunge me into the ditch and my own clothes shall despise me.

Job 19:26

and even after they corrupt my skin, yet this: in my flesh I shall see God,

Job 24:20

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and injustice shall be broken like a tree.

Job 30:18-19

By the great force of my disease my clothing is exposed; it binds me about like the mouth of my coat.

Psalm 38:5-7

My wounds have putrefied and rotted, because of my foolishness.

Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; only a wound and a stripe and a fresh blow; they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with oil.

Isaiah 66:24

And they will go out and see the dead bodies of the men who have sinned against Me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be put out; and they will be an object of disgust to all flesh.

Ezekiel 20:43

And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings in which you have been defiled. And you shall despise yourselves in your own sight for all your evils which you have committed.

Acts 12:23

And immediately the angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and gave up the spirit.

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