My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
YLT
Clothed hath been my flesh with worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,
ASV
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
DBT
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.