Job 13:28
26 For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
27 You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
- KJV
- And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- WEB
- though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
- ASV
- Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
- DARBY
- One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
- BLB
- And he, like a rotten thing, is worn out, like a garment a moth has eaten.
- ÅB
- og dette gjør du mot en som tæres bort som makk-ett tre, som et møllspist klesplagg.
[^1]: søke å redde mitt liv.
[^2]: sette det på spill. - OTB
- Mens jeg svinner hen som noe råttent,
Som et plagg som er møllspist. - B1930
- og dette gjør du mot en som tæres bort som makk-ett tre, som et klædebon møllet har ett.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 39:11
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
Read in contextJob 4:19
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Read in contextNumbers 12:12
Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
Read in contextJob 30:17–19
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
Read in contextHosea 5:12
So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
Read in contextJob 30:29–30
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
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