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My fleshבְּשָׂרִיis clothedלָבַשׁwith wormsרִמָּהand a crustוְגוּשׁof dust;עָפָרmy skinעוֹרִיhardensרָגַעand festers.וַיִּמָּאֵס
Job 7:5
Study it in the app“My flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dust; my skin hardens and festers.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 7:5, word by word
- My fleshבְּשָׂרִbesari
flesh
The body of a person or animal, the soft part covering the bones.
Where else “besari” appears- is clothedלָבַשׁlavash
put on
To cover the body with clothes: to put on what one is to wear.
Where else “lavash” appears- with wormsרִמָּהrima
maggot
Maggot, worm (in what rots).
Where else “rima” appears- and a crustגוּשׁgush
clod, crust
A clod, a crust: a mass of caked earth.
Where else “gush” appears- of dustעָפָרafar
dust
Dry, loose earth, fine as dust; God formed man from it.
Where else “afar” appears- my skinעוֹרִori
skin, leather
Skin, hide; leather.
Where else “ori” appears- hardensרָגַעraga
harden
For the skin of a wound to harden and dry.
Where else “raga” appears- and festersיִּמָּאֵסyimaes
dissolve
To melt or run, like skin that oozes or water that drains away.
Where else “yimaes” appears
Translation note
“Hardens and festers”: both verbs are of uncertain sense in this place.
The context
4When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the evening stretches on, and I am sated with tossing until twilight.
5 · This verse (above)
6My days are swifter than a shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.