Job 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job 13:28 in other translations
| BSB | So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him. |
| DARBY | One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth. |
| BBE | Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm. |
| Webster | And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten. |
What does Job 13:28 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 13:23-28
Job begs to have his sins discovered to him. A true penitent is willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know what our transgressions are, that we may confess them, and guard against them for the future. Job complains sorrowfully of God's severe dealings with him. Time does not wear out the guilt of sin. When God writes bitter things against us, his design is to make us bring forgotten sins…
Job 13:28 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 13:28
- 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.
- Job 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?
- Numbers 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.
- Job 30:17-19
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
- Hosea 5:12
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
- Job 30:29-30
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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Context
- Job 13:27
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.
- Job 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job 13:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y el cuerpo mío se va gastando como de carcoma, como vestido que se come de polilla. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et celui que tu poursuis dépérit comme une chose pourrie, comme un vêtement que la teigne a rongé. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | da ich doch zerfalle wie Moder, wie ein Kleid, das die Motte zerfressen hat. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | qui quasi putredo consumendus sum, et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea. |