Job 13:28
And he, as a rotten thing, wears away, || A moth has consumed him as a garment.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 12:12please do not let her be as [one] dead, when in his coming out from the womb of his mother—the half of his flesh is consumed.”
Job 7:5My flesh has been clothed [with] worms, || And a clod of dust, || My skin has been shriveled and is loathsome,
Job 30:29I have been a brother to dragons, || And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O YHWH, || And give ear [to] my cry, || Do not be silent to my tear, || For I [am] a sojourner with You, || A settler like all my fathers.
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 →