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THE MESSAGE
Job 7:5
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My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt.My skin forms scabs and then oozes.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
My body is covered with worms and scabs, and my skin is broken and full of sores.
My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.
"My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust; My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs.
"My flesh is clothed with maggots and a crust of dirt, My skin hardens and oozes.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.
My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt;My skin scabs over and flows out again.
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
My parched skin is covered with worms, dirt, and sores,
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt, my skin forms scabs that ooze pus.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
My skin is covered with worms and scabs. It is cracked and covered with sores.
My flesh is covered with worms, and my body with dust; my skin is shrunk, and falls apart.
My body is full of worms; it is covered with scabs; pus runs out of my sores.
My body is clothed with maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way again.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and is loathed.
My flesh is clothed with wormes, fylthinesse and dust: my skynne is wythered, and crompled together:
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
My fleshe is clothed with wormes and dust of the earth: my skinne is withered and become horrible.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.
My flesh is cloathed with wormes and clods of dust, my skinne is broken, and become loathsome.
And my body is covered with loathsome worms; and I waste away, scraping off clods of dust from my eruption.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.
Mi fleisch is clothid with rot, and filthis of dust; my skyn driede vp, and is drawun togidere.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and become lothsome.
My flesh is caked with worms and dust, My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh.
My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus.
My flesh is covered with worms and dirt. My skin becomes hard and breaks open.
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out again.
My flesh is clothed with worms and a coating of dust, My skin, hath hardened, and then run afresh:
My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together.
My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
Clothed hath been my flesh [with] worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
"My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt, My skin hardens and runs.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
flesh: Job 2:7, Job 2:8, Job 17:14, Job 19:26, Job 24:20, Job 30:18, Job 30:19, Psalms 38:5-7, Isaiah 1:6, Isaiah 14:11, Acts 12:23
loathsome: Job 9:31, Isaiah 66:24, Ezekiel 20:43
Reciprocal: Job 6:11 - What Job 19:20 - and I am Job 33:21 - His flesh Psalms 38:7 - my loins Psalms 103:14 - we are dust
Cross-References
Noah did everything God commanded him to do.
That completed the work of The Dwelling, the Tent of Meeting. The People of Israel did what God had commanded Moses. They did it all.
Moses did everything God commanded. He did it all.
But Jesus insisted. "Do it. God's work, putting things right all these centuries, is coming together right now in this baptism." So John did it.
He replied, "My mother and brothers are the ones who hear and do God's Word. Obedience is thicker than blood."
She went ahead anyway, telling the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do it."
Washing His Disciples' Feet Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that the time had come to leave this world to go to the Father. Having loved his dear companions, he continued to love them right to the end. It was suppertime. The Devil by now had Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, firmly in his grip, all set for the betrayal. Jesus knew that the Father had put him in complete charge of everything, that he came from God and was on his way back to God. So he got up from the supper table, set aside his robe, and put on an apron. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, drying them with his apron. When he got to Simon Peter, Peter said, "Master, you wash my feet?" Jesus answered, "You don't understand now what I'm doing, but it will be clear enough to you later." Peter persisted, "You're not going to wash my feet—ever!" Jesus said, "If I don't wash you, you can't be part of what I'm doing." "Master!" said Peter. "Not only my feet, then. Wash my hands! Wash my head!" Jesus said, "If you've had a bath in the morning, you only need your feet washed now and you're clean from head to toe. My concern, you understand, is holiness, not hygiene. So now you're clean. But not every one of you." (He knew who was betraying him. That's why he said, "Not every one of you.") After he had finished washing their feet, he took his robe, put it back on, and went back to his place at the table. Then he said, "Do you understand what I have done to you? You address me as ‘Teacher' and ‘Master,' and rightly so. That is what I am. So if I, the Master and Teacher, washed your feet, you must now wash each other's feet. I've laid down a pattern for you. What I've done, you do. I'm only pointing out the obvious. A servant is not ranked above his master; an employee doesn't give orders to the employer. If you understand what I'm telling you, act like it—and live a blessed life.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust,.... Not as it would be at death, and in the grave, as Schmidt interprets it, when it would be eaten with worms and reduced to dust; but as it then was, his ulcers breeding worms, or lice, as some y; these spread themselves over his body: some think it was the vermicular or pedicular disease that was upon him, and the scabs of them, which were all over him like one continued crust, were as a garment to him; or those sores of his, running with purulent matter, and he sitting and rolling himself in dust and ashes, and this moisture mingling therewith, and clotted together, formed clods of dust, which covered him all over; a dismal spectacle to look upon! a precious saint in a vile body!
my skin is broken: with the boils and ulcers in all parts, and was parched and cleft with the heat and breaking of them:
and become loathsome; to himself and others; exceeding nauseous, and extremely disagreeable both to sight and smell: or "liquefied" z; moistened with corrupt matter flowing from the ulcers in all parts of his body; the word in Arabic signifies a large, broad, and open wound, as a learned man a has observed; and it is as if he should say, whoever observes all this, this long time of distress, night and day, and what a shocking figure he was, as here represented, could blame him for wishing for death in the most passionate manner?
y So Sephorno and Bar Tzemach. z ימאס "liquefit", Junius Tremellius "colliquefacta est", Piscator, Mercerus. a Hinckelman. Praefat. ad Alcoran. p. 30.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My flesh is clothed with worms - Job here undoubtedly refers to his diseased state, and this is one of the passages by which we may learn the nature of his complaint; compare the notes at Job 2:7. There is reference here to the worms which are produced in ulcers and in other forms of disease. Michaelis remarks that such effects are produced often in the elephantiasis. Bochart, Hieroz. P. II, Lib. IV. c. xxvi. pp. 619–621, has abundantly proved that such effects occur in disease, and has mentioned several instances where death ensued from this cause; compare Acts 12:23. The same thing would often happen - and particularly in hot climates - if it were not for the closest care and attention in keeping running sores as clean as possible.
And clods of dust - Accumulated on the ulcers which covered his whole body. This effect would be almost unavoidable. Dr. Good renders this, “worms and the imprisoning dust,” and supposes that the image is taken from the grave, and that the idea in the whole passage is that of one who is “dead while he lives;” that is, of one who is undergoing putrefaction before he is buried. But the more common and correct interpretation is that which refers it to the accumulated filth attending a loathsome disease; see Job 2:8. The word which is used here and rendered clods (גוּשׁ gûsh) means a lump of earth or dust. Septuagint, βώλακας γῆς bōlakas gēs; Vulgate, sordes pulveris,” clods of earth.” The whole verse is rendered by the Septuagint,” My body swarms with the putrefaction of worms, and I moisten the clods of earth with the ichor (ἰχῶρος ichōros) of ulcers.”
My skin is broken - - רגע râga‛. This word means, to make afraid, to terrify; and then to shrink together from fear, or to contract. Here it means, according to Gesenius, that “the skin came together and healed, and then broke forth again and ran with pus.” Jerome renders it, aruit - dries up. Herder, “my skin becometh closed.” Dr. Good, “my skin becometh stiff;” and carries out his idea that the reference here is to the stiffened and rigid appearance of the body after death. Doederlin supposes that it refers to the rough and horrid appearance of the skin in the elephantiasis, when it becomes rigid and frightful by the disease. Jarchi renders it, cutis mea corrugata - my skin is rough, or filled with wrinkles. This seems to me to be the idea, that it was filled with wrinkles and corrugations; that it became stiff, fixed, frightful, and was such as to excite terror in the beholder.
And become loathsome - Gesenius, “runs again with pus.” The word here used מאס mâ'as means properly to reject, contemn, despise. A second sense which it has is, to melt, to run like water; Psalms 58:7, “Let them melt away (ימאסוּ yı̂mâ'asû) as waters.” But the usual meaning is to be preferred here. His skin became abhorrent and loathsome in the sight of others.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 7:5. My flesh is clothed with worms — This is perhaps no figure, but is literally true: the miserably ulcerated state of his body, exposed to the open air, and in a state of great destitution, was favourable to those insects that sought such places in which to deposit their ova, which might have produced the animals in question. But the figure is too horrid to be farther illustrated.
Clods of dust — I believe all the commentators have here missed the sense. I suppose Job to allude to those incrustations of indurated or dried pus, which are formed on the tops of pustules in a state of decay: such as the scales which fall from the pustules of the smallpox, when the patient becomes convalescent. Or, if Job's disease was the elephantiasis, it may refer to the furfuraceous scales which are continually falling off the body in that disorder. It is well known, that in this disease the skin becomes very rigid, so as to crack across, especially at the different joints, out of which fissures a loathsome ichor is continually exuding. To something like this the words may refer, My SKIN is BROKEN, and become LOATHSOME.
