Verse 28

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 Remove Your stroke from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like rot to the house of Judah.
  • Job 30:17-19 : 17 At night my bones are pierced within me, and my veins find no rest. 18 With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me like the collar of my tunic. 19 He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
  • Job 30:29-30 : 29 I am a brother to jackals and a companion to ostriches. 30 My skin grows black and peels off, and my bones burn with fever.
  • Num 12:12 : 12 Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away.'