Job 13:28

WEB

²⁸though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

KJV

²⁸And he, as a rotten thing^[+], consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

BSB

²⁸So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

FBV

²⁸I'm falling apart like something rotten, like moth-eaten clothes.

Extra References

Psalms 39:11

¹¹When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.

Job 4:19

¹⁹How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

¹⁷In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest. ¹⁸My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic. ¹⁹He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:29-30

²⁹I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches. ³⁰My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

Numbers 12:12

¹²Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Hosea 5:12

¹²Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.