My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Job 7:5 comes as part of Job's answer to Eliphaz's first speech about not despising God's chastening, in which Job justifies his complaints. More broadly it belongs to the long discussion in chapters 3-31 about the cause and object of human suffering. It describes Job's grievous bodily affliction in his trial, his flesh clothed with corruption and hardened earth and his skin broken and festering.
Job, whose affliction is described, was a real, upright, thoroughly good man. His suffering did not mean he was under God's displeasure. Though he could not understand God's dealings with him, he knew his own integrity and did not charge God foolishly. God saw the end from the beginning and was working through that affliction to glorify Himself, to bless Job in the end, and to give comfort and hope to thousands of sufferers afterward.
Job 7:5 comes as part of Job's answer to Eliphaz's first speech about not despising God's chastening, in which Job justifies his complaints. More broadly it belongs to the long discussion in chapters 3-31 about the cause and object of human suffering. It describes Job's grievous bodily affliction in his trial, his flesh clothed with corruption and hardened earth and his skin broken and festering.
Job, whose affliction is described, was a real, upright, thoroughly good man. His suffering did not mean he was under God's displeasure. Though he could not understand God's dealings with him, he knew his own integrity and did not charge God foolishly. God saw the end from the beginning and was working through that affliction to glorify Himself, to bless Job in the end, and to give comfort and hope to thousands of sufferers afterward.