Job 13:28
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.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Read in contextJob 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Read in contextNumbers 12:12
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
Read in contextJob 30:17–19
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Read in contextHosea 5:12
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Read in contextJob 30:29–30
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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