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

Bible Comments

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; Isaiah 14:11).

Clods of dust - clod-like scales of dirt: a crust of dried filth and accumulated corruption (Job 2:7-8).

My skin is broken and ... loathsome - rather, draws together, so as to heal up, and again breaks out with running matter (Gesenius). More simply, the Hebrew is, 'My skin rests х raaga` (H7280)] (for a time) and (again) melts away' (Psalms 58:7).

Job 7:5

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