Topic
Moth, The
8 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 4:19Torrey Destroyed by the slightest touch
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
- Job 13:28Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- Job 27:18Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
- Isaiah 50:9Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Eating a garment,) of God's judgments
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
- Isaiah 51:8Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — (Eating a garment,) of God's judgments
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
- Hosea 5:12Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of God in the execution of his judgments
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
- Matthew 6:19Torrey Destructive to garments
¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
- James 5:2Torrey Destructive to garments
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.