Verse 5

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 17:14 : 14 I have said to corruption, 'You are my father'; to the worm, 'You are my mother, and my sister.'
  • Isa 14:11 : 11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.
  • Job 2:7-8 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat down among the ashes.
  • Job 9:31 : 31 Yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
  • Isa 66:24 : 24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the corpses of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.
  • Ezek 20:43 : 43 And there you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
  • Acts 12:23 : 23 And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
  • Job 19:26 : 26 And though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God,
  • Job 24:20 : 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and wickedness shall be broken like a tree.
  • Job 30:18-19 : 18 By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat. 19 He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
  • Ps 38:5-7 : 5 My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no health in my flesh.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.