Job 13:28
Good News Translation
As a result, I crumble like rotten wood, like a moth-eaten coat.

New Revised Standard Version
One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Contemporary English Version
I am rotting away like cloth eaten by worms.

New American Bible
Though I wear out like a leather bottle, like a garment the moth has consumed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.

And he

Job 30:17-19,29,30 In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep. . . .

Numbers 12:12 Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother's womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with the leprosy.

as a garment

Job 4:19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Psalm 39:11 Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Hosea 5:12 And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
27Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet: 28Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.
Cross References
James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

Job 2:7
So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

Job 17:14
I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

Psalm 39:11
Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Isaiah 50:9
Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.

Job 13:27
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