My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
The 1611 reading
My flesh is cloathed with wormes and clods of dust, my skinne is broken, and become loathsome.
KJV dictionary & concordance
A compact lump of earth, soil, or dust.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 7:5
Complete exact-word concordance
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
My flesh is cloathed with wormes and clods of dust, my skinne is broken, and become loathsome.
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
The cloudes of the valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
When the dust groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together?
1611 marginal noteOr, when the dust is turned into myre.
1611 marginal noteHeb. is powred.
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and breake the clods of his ground?
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught and loueth to tread out the corne, but I passed ouer vpon her faire necke: I will make Ephraim to ride: Iudah shall plow, and Iacob shall breake his clods.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the beautie of her necke.
The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
The seede is rotten vnder their clods: the garners are laide desolate: the barnes are broken downe, for the corne is withered.
1611 marginal noteHeb. grains
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