Job 13:28

In 11 translations

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.

LSV

And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, || A moth has consumed him as a garment.”

YLT

And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.

DBY

One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.

DRC

Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.

GNV

Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.

JPS

Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

LXXE

I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְ֭הוּא כְּרָקָ֣ב יִבְלֶ֑ה כְּ֝בֶ֗גֶד אֲכָ֣לוֹ עָֽשׁ׃

LXX-Br

Ὃ παλαιοῦται ἶσα ἀσκῷ, ἢ ὥσπερ ἱμάτιον σητόβρωτον.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
• Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
• Numbers 12:12Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”
• Job 30:29–30I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches. My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
• Job 30:17–19Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest. With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic. He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
• Hosea 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

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