Verse 5

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:14 : 14 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 the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
  • Job 2:7-8 : 7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
  • Job 9:31 : 31 Yet shalt 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 carcases 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 been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 And immediately the 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 though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet 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; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
  • Job 30:18-19 : 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: 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 stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: 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 putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.