Job 7:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. ”

Job 7:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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:...
Job 7:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Job 7:5 - 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 c...
Job 7:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. My flesh is clothed with worms - This is perhaps no figure, but is literally true: the miserably ulcerated s...
Job 7:5 - 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...
Job 7:5 - 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" ( Act...
Job 7:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
Job 7:5 - 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.
Job 7:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 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...
Job 7:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Longing for the Evening Job 7:1-21 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...
Job 7:5 - 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, i...
Job 7:5 - 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...
Job 7:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...
Job 7:5 - 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...
Job 7:5 - 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...
Job 7:5 - L. 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...
Job 7:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Reply to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth...
Job 7:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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 ou...
Job 7:5 - 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 human...
Job 7:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 circumstanc...
Job 7:5 - 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 th...
Job 7:5 - 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 ra...
Job 7:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 7:1-18 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 fin...
Job 7:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The General Misery of Human Life
Job 7:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 12:23 ; Ezekiel 20:43 ; Isaiah 1:6 ; Isaiah 14:11 ; Isaiah 66:24 ; Job 17:14 ; Job 19:26 ; Job 2:7 ; Job 2:8 ; Job 24:20 ; Job 30:18 ; Job 30:19 ; Job 9:31 ; Psalms 38:5-7
Job 7:5 - 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.

Job 7:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 7:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 7:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 7:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 7:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 7:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 7:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 7:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 7:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 7:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 7:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 7:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 7:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 7:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 7:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 7:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 7:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 7:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 7:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 7:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 7:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 7:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 7:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 7:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 7:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 7:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes