Job 7:5

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • Ps 102:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

    3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

    4My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

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

  • Job 16:14-16
    3 verses
    78%

    14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

    15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

    16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • Ps 38:5-8
    4 verses
    78%

    5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

    6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

    7For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.

    8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  • Job 7:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

    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.

  • Job 33:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

    20So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.

    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

  • 26And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God;

  • Job 30:16-19
    4 verses
    76%

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

    17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

    18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

    19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 28Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • 30My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

  • 10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • 20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

  • 1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • 6But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

  • Job 16:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

    8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me] : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

  • Job 17:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister;

    15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • 7My soul refuseth to touch [them] ; They are as loathsome food to me.

  • 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • 31Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

  • 7As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

  • 12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • 6How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!

  • 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

  • 16I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

  • 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

  • 26They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

  • 3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

  • 4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • 6Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.

  • 1Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desireth the first-ripe fig.

  • 13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

  • 11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.