Job 7:5
Good News Translation
My body is full of worms; it is covered with scabs; pus runs out of my sores.

New Revised Standard Version
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out again.

Contemporary English Version
My parched skin is covered with worms, dirt, and sores,

New American Bible
My flesh is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers;

Douay-Rheims Bible
My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together.

flesh.

Job 2:7,8 So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head: . . .

Job 17:14 I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

Job 19:26 And I shall be clothed again with my skin, and in my flesh I shall see my God.

Job 24:20 Let mercy forget him: may worms be his sweetness: let him be remembered no more, but be broken in pieces as an unfruitful tree.

Job 30:18,19 With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat. . . .

Psalm 38:5-7 My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness. . . .

Isaiah 1:6 From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.

Isaiah 14:11 Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.

Acts 12:23 And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

loathsome.

Job 9:31 Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.

Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all flesh.

Ezekiel 20:43 And there you shall remember your ways, and all your wicked doings with which you have been defiled; and you shall be displeased with yourselves in your own sight, for all your wicked deeds which you committed.

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
4If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I rise? and again, I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness. 5My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together.6My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.…
Cross References
Job 2:7
So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

Job 17:14
I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

Job 7:4
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