Job 7:5

In 11 translations

BSB

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

KJV

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

WEB

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

ASV

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

LSV

My flesh has been clothed [with] worms, || And a clod of dust, || My skin has been shriveled and is loathsome,

YLT

Clothed hath been my flesh [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

DBY

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.

DRC

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

GNV

My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.

JPS

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.

LXXE

And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.

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Original-language editions

WLC

לָ֘בַ֤שׁ בְּשָׂרִ֣י רִ֭מָּה וגיש עָפָ֑ר עוֹרִ֥י רָ֝גַ֗ע וַיִּמָּאֵֽס׃Read aloud as (qere): וְג֣וּשׁ

LXX-Br

Φύρεται δέ μου τὸ σῶμα ἐν σαπρίᾳ σκωλήκων, τήκω δὲ βώλακας γῆς ἀπὸ ἰχῶρος ξύων.

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• Isaiah 14:11Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
• Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
• Job 2:7–8So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the…
• Job 30:18–19With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic. He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
• Isaiah 1:6From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.
• Job 9:31then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
• Job 24:20The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is like a broken tree.
• Psalms 38:5–7My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly. I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning. For my loins are full of burning pain, and no soundness remains in my body.
• Isaiah 66:24“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”
• Ezekiel 20:43There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
• Job 19:26Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.
• Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

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