5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
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Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. …
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Job is here excusing what he could not justify, even his inordinate desire of death. Why should he not wish for the termination of life, which would be the termination of his miseries? To enforce this reason he argues, I. From the general condition of man upon earth (Job 7:1): “He is of few days, and full of trouble . Every man must die shortly, and every man has some reason (more or less) to desi…
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