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Job 7:5 Cross-References
Explore 12 cross-references for Job 7:5 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 7 verse 5 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.”
Job 7:5 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 7:5
Job's graphic description of physical deterioration shocks with its visceral honesty. 'Clothed with worms' (labash rimmah, לָבַשׁ רִמָּה) uses the verb for putting on garments—his body is 'dressed' in parasitic infestation, likely maggots in his sores. 'Clods of dust' (gush aphar, גּוּשׁ עָפָר) refers to crusted, hardened dirt mixed with bodily discharge forming scabs. His skin is 'broken' (ragam, רָגַם) and 'loathsome' (ma'as, מָאַס), meaning rejected, despised, and repulsive.This verse confronts sanitized spirituality with the brutal reality of physical suffering. Job doesn't spiritualize hi...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 7:5
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“with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you”
“'You are my father;' to the worm”
“and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.”
“Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch”
“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.”
“and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die”
“because of my foolishness.”
“because he didn't give God the glory”
“welts”
“and all your doings”