Deuteronomy 28:35

28:35 The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils – from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

Job 2:7

Job’s Integrity in Suffering

2:7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and he afflicted ¹  Job with a malignant ulcer ²  from the sole of his feet to the top of his head. ³ 

Isaiah 1:6

1:6 From the soles of your feet to your head,

there is no spot that is unharmed. ⁴ 

There are only bruises, cuts,

and open wounds.

They have not been cleansed ⁵  or bandaged,

nor have they been treated ⁶  with olive oil. ⁷ 

Ephesians 5:27

5:27 so that he ⁸  may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. ⁹ 

[2:7]  ¹ tn The verb is נָכָה (nakhah, “struck, smote”); it can be rendered in this context as “afflicted.”

[2:7]  ² sn The general consensus is that Job was afflicted with a leprosy known as elephantiasis, named because the rough skin and the swollen limbs are animal-like. The Hebrew word שְׁחִין (shÿkhin, “boil”) can indicate an ulcer as well. Leprosy begins with such, but so do other diseases. Leprosy normally begins in the limbs and spreads, but Job was afflicted everywhere at once. It may be some other disease also characterized by such a malignant ulcer. D. J. A. Clines has a thorough bibliography on all the possible diseases linked to this description (Job [WBC], 48). See also HALOT 1460 s.v. שְׁחִין.

[2:7]  ³ tn Heb “crown.”

[1:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “there is not in it health”; NAB “there is no sound spot.”

[1:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “pressed out.”

[1:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “softened” (so NASB, NRSV); NIV “soothed.”

[1:6]  ⁷ sn This verse describes wounds like those one would receive in battle. These wounds are comprehensive and without remedy.

[5:27]  ⁸ tn The use of the pronoun αὐτός (autos) is intensive and focuses attention on Christ as the one who has made the church glorious.

[5:27]  ⁹ tn Grk “but in order that it may be holy and blameless.”