Verse 28

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

Referenced Verses

• Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;
• Ps 39:11 : 11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
• Hos 5:12 : 12 And so to Ephraim I am like a wasting insect, and a destruction to the children of Judah.
• Job 30:17-19 : 17 The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains. 18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat. 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
• Job 30:29-30 : 29 I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches. 30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
• Num 12:12 : 12 Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.