Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 7:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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Role in This Section
Job 7:5 advances the thought unit with the words “My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.” Job states “My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust” as one poetic claim in Job Describes Life as Forced Labor and Sleepless Nights.
Read It With
- Job 7:1–7:6
Read Job 7:5 with 7:1–7:6. Read alone, “My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job compares mortal life to military service and hired labor, then describes empty months, restless nights, damaged skin, and days ending without hope.
Why It Needs Context
Job 7:5 depends on 7:1–7:6; isolating “My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Describes Life as Forced Labor and Sleepless Nights.”
Read Job 7:1–6 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 7:1–7:6 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Describes Life as Forced Labor and Sleepless Nights.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Verse 2. 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Verse 3. 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Verse 4. 4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Verse 5. 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Verse 6. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 7:1–7:6 — Job Describes Life as Forced Labor and Sleepless NightsSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 7:1–7:6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 7:1–7:6
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