Job 13:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, As a garment that is moth eaten.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And he wastes away as a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Common English Bible

²⁸ Surely a person wastes away like refuse, like clothing that a moth eats.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths.

Job 13:28 Cross References

Psalm 39:11

“You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah

Job 4:19

how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

Hosea 5:12

Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.

Numbers 12:12

Do not let her be like one stillborn, whose flesh is half consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb.”

James 5:2

Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.

Job 2:7

So the accuser went out from the presence of the Lord and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Job 17:14

if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

Isaiah 50:9

It is the Lord God who helps me; who will declare me guilty? All of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.

Job 7:5

My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out again.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.