Verse 5

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

Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
  • Job 2:7-8 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
  • Job 9:31 : 31 Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.
  • Isa 66:24 : 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.
  • Ezek 20:43 : 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.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
  • Job 30:18-19 : 18 By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
  • Ps 38:5-7 : 5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness. 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
  • Isa 1:6 : 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.