Job 13:28

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

In Context

27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet;

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Cross References

Numbers 12:12Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.'

Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.

Job 30:29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Psalms 39:12(39-13) Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; keep not silence at my tears; for I am a stranger with Thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

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 →

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