Job 7:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
  • Job 2:7-8 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. 8 He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
  • Job 9:31 : 31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
  • Isa 66:24 : 24 "They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all mankind."
  • Ezek 20:43 : 43 There you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have polluted yourselves; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 After my skin is destroyed, then in 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. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
  • Job 30:18-19 : 18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have 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 day long. 7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

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    3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

    4My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

  • Job 7:6
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    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

  • Job 16:14-16
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    14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

    15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

    16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

  • Ps 38:5-8
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    78%

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

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

    7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

    8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

  • Job 7:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

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

    4When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

  • Job 33:20-21
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    77%

    20So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

    21His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

  • Job 19:26
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    26After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,

  • Job 30:16-19
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    76%

    16"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

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

    18By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

    19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 13:28
    76%

    28though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    75%

    14I am poured out like water. 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. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • Job 30:30
    75%

    30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

  • Ps 31:10
    74%

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • Job 19:20
    74%

    20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

  • Job 17:1
    74%

    1"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • Ps 22:6
    74%

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

  • Job 16:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

    8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

  • Job 17:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'

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

  • Job 6:7
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    7My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

  • Job 10:11
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    11You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • Job 9:31
    73%

    31yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

  • Ps 141:7
    72%

    7"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."

  • Isa 38:12
    72%

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like 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 you will make an end of me.

  • Job 25:6
    72%

    6How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!"

  • Job 17:7
    72%

    7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

  • Job 7:16
    72%

    16I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

  • Lam 3:16
    71%

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

  • Job 21:26
    71%

    26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

  • Ps 38:3
    71%

    3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

  • Ps 143:4
    70%

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

  • Job 21:6
    70%

    6When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

  • Mic 7:1
    70%

    1Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

  • Lam 1:13
    70%

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

  • Job 7:21
    70%

    21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • Ps 102:11
    70%

    11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.