Job 13:28
Around one who wastes away as a rotten thing, 1 as a beged (garment) that is moth eaten.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 12:12Let her not be as one dead, of whom the basar is half consumed when he cometh out of his motherʼs womb.
Job 7:5My basar is clothed with worm and clod of aphar; 1 my ohr (skin) is broken, and become loathsome. 1
Job 30:29I am an ach to jackals, 1 and a re'a to owls. 1
Psalms 39:12When Thou with rebukes dost correct man for avon (iniquity), 1 Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: 1 surely kol adam are hevel (vanity). 1 Selah 1
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 →