Job 7:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.
  • Job 2:7-8 : 7 Job’s Integrity in Suffering So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. 8 Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.
  • Job 9:31 : 31 then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.
  • Isa 66:24 : 24 “They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the sight abhorrent.”
  • Ezek 20:43 : 43 And there you will remember your conduct and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves because of all the evil deeds you have done.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.
  • Job 30:18-19 : 18 With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic. 19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
  • Ps 38:5-7 : 5 My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins. 6 I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning. 7 For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the soles of your feet to your head, there is no spot that is unharmed. There are only bruises, cuts, and open wounds. They have not been cleansed or bandaged, nor have they been treated with olive oil.

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    11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.