though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 7:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin is broken, and become loathsome. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and has become loathsome, and it closes up and breaks out afresh. American Standard Version (1901) My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh. Common English Bible My flesh is covered with worms and crusted earth; my skin hardens and oozes. Catholic Public Domain Version My flesh is clothed with particles of rottenness and filth; my skin is dried up and tightened. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust: my skin is withered and drawn together. |
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.
My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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.
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.
Your pomp is brought down to She'ol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
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 shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
There shall you 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.
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.