Job 7:5

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

Cross-reference

Job 2:7 Historical context

Job 2:7 records Satan striking Job with loathsome sores—the cause of the wormy flesh in 7:5.

Job 19:26 Contrast

In Job 19:26, Job uses the same worm and skin imagery but adds hope of seeing God after decay — a contrast of despair and faith.

Job 30:19 Parallel

In Job 30:19, being cast into mire and becoming dust and ashes directly echoes the 'clods of dust' from Job's earlier lament.

Job 19:20 Parallel

Job 19:20 describes bones clinging to skin — the same physical emaciation he laments in 7:5.

Job 33:21 Parallel

Job 33:21 portrays flesh consumed and bones protruding — directly echoing Job's own wasting condition.

Job 17:14 Parallel

Job 17:14 calls the worm 'mother'—same imagery of decay, but now linked to death and the pit.

Job 9:31 Parallel

In Job 9:31, being plunged into a ditch with clothes abhorring him continues the theme of filth and decay, though less specific than worms.

In Psalm 38:5-7, the psalmist describes stinking wounds and no soundness in flesh — a vivid parallel to Job's loathsome skin.

Isaiah 1:6 Parallel

In Isaiah 1:6, the nation's spiritual decay is pictured as wounds and putrifying sores from head to foot — mirroring Job's physical condition.

Acts 12:23 Contrast

In Acts 12:23, Herod is eaten by worms as divine judgment — contrasting with Job's undeserved suffering while sharing the same graphic worm imagery.

Psalm 38:7 Parallel

Psalm 38:7 describes loathsome disease and no soundness in flesh — a parallel to Job's worms and broken skin.

Psalm 103:14 remembers we are dust with compassion — Job's 'clods of dust' express frailty but without that comfort.