Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths. New Living Translation I waste away like rotting wood, like a moth-eaten coat. English Standard Version Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. Berean Standard Bible So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment. King James Bible And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. New King James Version “Man decays like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. New American Standard Bible While I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. NASB 1995 While I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. NASB 1977 While I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. Legacy Standard Bible While I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. Amplified Bible While I waste away like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. Christian Standard Bible A person wears out like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment. Holman Christian Standard Bible Man wears out like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment. American Standard Version Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. Contemporary English Version I am rotting away like cloth eaten by worms. English Revised Version Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten. GOD'S WORD® Translation I am like worn-out wineskins, like moth-eaten clothes. Good News Translation As a result, I crumble like rotten wood, like a moth-eaten coat. International Standard Version So I'm a man who wears out like something rotten, like a garment that has become moth-eaten." Majority Standard Bible So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment. NET Bible So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths. New Heart English Bible though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. Webster's Bible Translation And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten. World English Bible though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd he, as a rotten thing, wears away, "" A moth has consumed him as a garment.” Young's Literal Translation And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him. Smith's Literal Translation And he as rottenness will fall away; as a garment the moth ate it. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleWho am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten. Catholic Public Domain Version I will be left to decay like something rotten and like a garment that is being eaten by moths. New American Bible Though I wear out like a leather bottle, like a garment the moth has consumed. New Revised Standard Version One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleYet a man is like a worn-out waterskin, and a garment that is moth-eaten. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And he is as a skin which wears out, and like clothing which a moth eats. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. Brenton Septuagint Translation I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Reproves His Friends…27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet. 28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment. Cross References Psalm 39:11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah Psalm 102:3-11 For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers. / My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread. / Through my loud groaning my skin hangs on my bones. ... Isaiah 50:9 Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them. Isaiah 51:8 For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.” 2 Corinthians 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day. 1 Peter 1:24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, James 1:10-11 But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field. / For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits. Isaiah 64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. Psalm 103:14-16 For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust. / As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field; / when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more. 2 Corinthians 5:1-4 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. / For in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, / because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. ... Romans 8:20-21 For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope / that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable. / It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. / It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 2 Peter 3:10-12 But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare. / Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to conduct yourselves in holiness and godliness / as you anticipate and hasten the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will be destroyed by fire and the elements will melt in the heat. Matthew 6:19-20 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. / But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. Hebrews 1:10-12 And: “In the beginning, O Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. / They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. / You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.” Treasury of Scripture And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten. And he Job 30:17-19,29,30 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest… Numbers 12:12 Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb. as a garment Job 4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? Psalm 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. Hosea 5:12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. Jump to Previous Bit Consumed Consumeth Dead Decaying Eaten Eateth Food Garment Moth Moth-Eaten Moths Robe Rotten Something Wastes Weareth Wine-Skin Wood WormJump to Next Bit Consumed Consumeth Dead Decaying Eaten Eateth Food Garment Moth Moth-Eaten Moths Robe Rotten Something Wastes Weareth Wine-Skin Wood WormJob 13 1. Job reproves his friends for partiality14. He professes his confidence in God; 19. and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him So man The Hebrew word for "man" here is "אֱנוֹשׁ" (enosh), which often emphasizes the frailty and mortality of humanity. This term is used to highlight the inherent weakness and transience of human life. In the context of Job, it underscores the theme of human suffering and the limitations of human understanding in the face of divine wisdom and power. The use of "enosh" reminds us of our dependence on God and the need for humility. wastes away like something rotten like a moth-eaten garment
Hebrew So manוְ֭הוּא (wə·hū) Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are wastes away יִבְלֶ֑ה (yiḇ·leh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1086: To fail, to wear out, decay like something rotten, כְּרָקָ֣ב (kə·rā·qāḇ) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7538: Rottenness, decay like a moth-eaten אֲכָ֣לוֹ (’ă·ḵā·lōw) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 398: To eat garment. כְּ֝בֶ֗גֶד (kə·ḇe·ḡeḏ) Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage Links Job 13:28 NIVJob 13:28 NLT Job 13:28 ESV Job 13:28 NASB Job 13:28 KJV Job 13:28 BibleApps.com Job 13:28 Biblia Paralela Job 13:28 Chinese Bible Job 13:28 French Bible Job 13:28 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 13:28 Though I am decaying like a rotten (Jb) |