KJV King James Version
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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Job 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
WEB World English Bible
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
ASV American Standard Version
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
Surrounding context — Job 13
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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Cross-references
Psalm 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.Job 4:19How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?Hosea 5:12Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.Job 30:17-19My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.Job 30:29-30I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.Numbers 12:12Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
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