Job 13:28 “So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.”

Job 13:28

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

World English Bible

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

American Standard Version

Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Geneva Bible 1599

Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.

Darby Translation

One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.

Young's Literal Translation

And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.

Bible in Basic English

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

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Cross references

“And he”

Job 30:17–19 Numbers 12:12 Job 30:29 Job 30:30

Job 30:17–19 · BSB

Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

Numbers 12:12 · BSB

Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Job 30:29 · BSB

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

Job 30:30 · BSB

My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

“as a garment”

Psalm 39:11 Job 4:19 Hosea 5:12

Psalm 39:11 · BSB

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Job 4:19 · BSB

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Hosea 5:12 · BSB

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

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