Verse 5

My body is clothed with worms and scabs; my skin cracks and festers.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:14 : 14 and I call the pit my father, and the worm my mother and sister,
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pride has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Beneath you is a bed of maggots, and worms cover you.
  • Job 2:7-8 : 7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. 8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
  • Job 9:31 : 31 You would plunge me into a pit, and even my clothes would abhor me.
  • Isa 66:24 : 24 Then they will go out and look at the dead bodies of those who rebelled against Me; their worm will not die, their fire will not be quenched, and they will be abhorrent to all mankind.
  • Ezek 20:43 : 43 There you will remember your ways and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evil you have done.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately, an angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give glory to God. He was eaten by worms and died.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The womb forgets them; worms feast upon them; they are no longer remembered. Wickedness is broken like a tree.
  • Job 30:18-19 : 18 With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me like the collar of my tunic. 19 He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
  • Ps 38:5-7 : 5 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too much for me to bear. 6 My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness. 7 I am bent over and deeply bowed down; all day long I go about mourning.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, only wounds, bruises, and raw sores. They have not been tended, or bandaged, or softened with oil.