5My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.


In Context

2 Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired man waiting eagerly for his wages,

3 so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

4 When I lie down I think, 'How long before I get up?' The night drags on, and I toss till dawn.

5 My body is clothed with worms and scabs, my skin is broken and festering.

6 "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.

7 Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again.

Job 7:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:5My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust, my skin is withered and drawn together.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and become lothsome.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.