Job 13:28
Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
In Context
27And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
Cross References
Numbers 12:12Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.
Job 7:5My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
Job 30:29I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
Psalms 39:12\39:11\By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Matthew Henry on Job 13:24-28
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? 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. 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a… Read the whole commentary →