Job Chapter 7 verse 5 Holy Bible
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
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My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
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My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
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My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and become lothsome.
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My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
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Clothed hath been my flesh `with' worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - My flesh is clothed with worms. The leas et origo mall in elephantiasis is a worm called filaria sanguinis hominid. It is a long, fine, thread-like creature, of a white colour, smooth; and devoid of markings (Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine,' vol. 1, pp. 512, 513). And clods of dust. This is rather poetical than strictly medical. The special characteristic of elephantiasis, from which it derives its name, is that the integument, or outer skin, is "formed into large masses or folds, with a rugose condition of the surface, not unlike the appearance of an elephant's leg" (Quain, vol. 1. p. 431). But the swellings do not contain clods of dust. My skin is broken, and become loathsome. A common feature in elephantiasis is the development and gradual growth of solid papules or tubercles in the skin. These enlarge as the disease progresses, and after a time soften and break up; an nicer is then formed, and a discharge follows of a virulent and loathsome character. Presently the discharge steps; the ulcer heals; but only to break out again in another place. In the Revised Version the passage is rendered, My skin closeth up, and breaketh afresh.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) With worms and clods of dust.--It is characteristic of Elephantiasis that the skin becomes hard and rugous, and then cracks and becomes ulcerated.
