Devine Scripture

Job 7:5

Job chapter 7 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

v.5This passage

v.6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 38:5

    My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

  • Ezekiel 20:43

    And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

  • Job 17:14

    If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou artmy mother, and my sister;

  • Isaiah 66:24

    And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

  • Job 19:26

    And after my skin, eventhisbody, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

  • Isaiah 1:6

    From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.