Job 13:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.”
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BSBPD
“So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 13:28 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 12:12Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
- Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.
- Job 30:17Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
- Job 30:29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
- Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
- Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- Hosea 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
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