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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms, maggots breeding in the ulcers, and clods of dust, the crust of dried filth covering his entire body; my skin is broken and become loathsome, whenever the skin made an attempt to heal, to come together, to become hard and stiff, the festering sores broke open again.

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See also Job 7:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 7:5. _MY FLESH IS CLOTHED WITH WORMS_] This is perhaps no figure, but is literally true: the miserably ulcerated state of his body, exposed to the open air, and in a state of great destituti...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MY FLESH IS CLOTHED WITH WORMS - Job here undoubtedly refers to his diseased state, and this is one of the passages by which we may learn the nature of his complaint; compare the notes at Job 2:7. The...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER _ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1)_ 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14) 4. The misery of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Job complains of the misery of his life and destiny. How is it that Job does not go on to maintain his innocence? Instead of this he proceeds to show how dreadfully he suffers, and to accuse God of cr...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A graphic account of his condition under his malady. Job 7:4 should probably be rendered, When I lie down I say, When shall I arise? And the night stretches out, and I am full of tossings, &c. At e...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _with worms and clods of dust_ His ulcers bred worms; and the hard earthy-like crust of his sores he calls lumps of dust. _is broken, and become loathsome_ Rather, MY SKIN CLOSES AND BREAKS AFRESH th...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MY FLESH IS CLOTHED WITH WORMS, &C.— _My flesh is clothed with worms, and with the filth of dust: my skin is broken and putrifies._ Houbigant. Heath renders it, _The worm covereth my flesh, and filthy...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    5. God decrees what man receives. (Job 7:1-10) TEXT 7:1-10 7 IS THERE NOT A WARFARE TO MAN UPON EARTH? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? 2 As a servant that earnestly desireth the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _MY FLESH IS CLOTHED WITH WORMS AND CLODS OF DUST; MY SKIN IS BROKEN, AND BECOME LOATHSOME._ Clothed with worms. In elephantiasis maggots are bred in the sores. "Herod was eaten of worms" (Acts 12:23...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WORMS] from the diseased flesh. CLODS OF DUST] the crust of his sores. These symptoms are found in leprosy, though they are not peculiar to it....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 7 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY T...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job could not sleep by night, because of his pain. Instead, he waited for the dawn. This is very sad. But perhaps Job was starting to have some hope. Daylight begins to shine at dawn. And light has a...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WITH WORMS AND CLODS OF DUST. — It is characteristic of Elephantiasis that the skin becomes hard and rugous, and then cracks and becomes ulcerated....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָ֘בַ֤שׁ בְּשָׂרִ֣י רִ֭מָּה _וְ_†_ג֣וּשׁ_† עָפָ֑ר עֹורִ֥י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1; Job 7:1 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    LONGING FOR THE EVENING Job 7:1 The servant eagerly longs for the lengthening shadow, which tells him that his day of labor is at an end, and we may allow ourselves to anticipate the hour of our rew...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Without waiting for their reply, Job broke out into a new lamentation, more bitter than the first, for it came out of a heart whose sorrow was aggravated by the misunderstanding of friends. Indeed, it...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    My flesh is (c) clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. (c) This signifies that his disease was rare and most horrible....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? (2) As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward o...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Job's Answer to Eliphaz I. INTRODUCTION I. Job 7:1 (NKJV) "[Is] [there] not a time of hard service for man on earth? [Are] [not] his days also like the days of a hired man? Job 7:2 Like a servant w...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MY FLESH IS CLOTHED WITH WORMS AND CLODS OF DUST,.... Not as it would be at death, and in the grave, as Schmidt interprets it, when it would be eaten with worms and reduced to dust; but as it then was...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. Ver. 5. _My flesh is clothed with worms_] Here Job showeth how and whence his nights were so wearisome and r...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _My flesh is clothed with worms_ Which were bred out of his corrupted flesh and sores, and which, it seems, covered him all over like a garment. _And clods of dust_ The dust of the earth on which he l...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    DOES GOD NOT RECOMPENSE GOOD DEEDS? (vv.1-16) Job's questions in verse 1 indicate why he was so distressed at God's dealings. No doubt too his friends would agree to his questions. "Is there not a t...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "MY FLESH IS CLOTHED WITH WORMS AND. CRUST OF DIRT": "His flesh covered with worms, which had got into his open sores, and with dirty scabs (literally clods of dust). His skin hardened (or cracked)" _...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 Job here excuses what he could not justify, his desire of death. Observe man's present place: he is upon earth. He is yet on earth, not in hell. Is there not a time appointed for his abode here?...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    CLOTHED, i.e. covered all over as with a garment. WITH WORMS; which oft breed and break forth in divers parts of living bodies, as history and experience witnesseth, and which were easily bred out of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 7:5 flesh H1320 caked H3847 (H8804) worms H7415 dust H1487 H6083 skin H5785 cracked H7280 ...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Job was sorely troubled by the cruel speeches of his friends, and he answered them out of the bitterness of his soul. What we are first about to read is a part of his language under those circumstance...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz. CONCLUSION: We believe in the sun even when it is hidden behind a cloud, therefore we should not doubt the goodness of God...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 7:1. _Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?_ הלא צבא _hela zaba,_ Nonne militia est homini super terra, et sicut dies mercenarii dies ejus? “Is not the life of man a warfare upon the e...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I am made to possess months of vanity._ THE WASTED WEEKS OF SICKNESS “Months of vanity” indicate a protracted time of uselessness, when no good cause is furthered by us, and we ourselves seem rather...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CONTINUATION OF JOB’S SPEECH_ Job ceases to altercate with Eliphaz and to defend himself. Resumes his complaints, and ends by addressing himself to God. I. COMPLAINS OF THE GENERAL LOT OF HUMANITY...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 7:1 In this chapter Job first bewails his miserable fate, of which he expects no alleviation (verses 1-10); then claims an unlimited right of complaint (verse 11); and finally enters i...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Is there not an appointed time to man upon the earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow (Job 7:1-2), That is, the shadow of the clock going...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 12:23; Ezekiel 20:43; Isaiah 1:6; Isaiah 14:11; Isaiah 66:24;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Worms — Which were bred out of Job's corrupted flesh and sores. Dust — The dust of the earth upon which he lay. Broken — By ulcers in all parts of it....

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