Job 13:28

As a result, my body is decaying like [SIM] rotten wood, like a piece of cloth that is eaten by larvae of moths.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

27It is as though you have fastened my feet with chains to prevent me from walking, and you watch me wherever I walk; It is as though you even look closely at my footprints to see where I have gone.

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Cross References

Numbers 12:12Do not allow Miriam to be like a baby that is already dead when it is born, whose flesh is already half decayed!”

Job 7:5My body is covered with maggots and scabs; pus oozes out of my open sores.

Job 30:29My wailing sounds as sad as [MET] the cries of jackals/foxes and ostriches.

Psalms 39:12Yahweh, listen to me while I pray; pay attention to me while I cry out to you. Help me while I am crying. I am here on the earth for only a short time, like all my ancestors.

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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