Job 13:28

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 4:19 : 19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Ps 39:11 : 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
Hos 5:12 : 12 Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Job 30:17-19 : 17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest. 18 By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:29-30 : 29 I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches. 30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
Num 12:12 : 12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Hos 5:12
77%
12Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Job 13:26-27
2 verses
77%
26For thou writest bitter things against me, And makest me to inherit the iniquities of my youth:
27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:
Job 33:21-22
2 verses
76%
21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.
22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.
Job 7:5-6
2 verses
76%
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
Job 30:18-19
2 verses
75%
18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Jas 5:2
74%
2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
Isa 51:8
74%
8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation unto all generations.
Lam 3:4
74%
4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Lam 3:11
74%
11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
Ps 102:3
73%
3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.
Job 17:1
73%
1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.
Isa 38:12-13
2 verses
73%
12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
13I quieted [myself] until morning; as a lion, so he breaketh all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Job 27:18
73%
18He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
Lam 1:13
73%
13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
Job 16:8-9
2 verses
73%
8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]: And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.
9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Isa 50:9
72%
9Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold, all they shall wax old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
Job 15:28
72%
28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
Job 4:19-20
2 verses
72%
19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 18:12-13
2 verses
72%
12His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.
13The members of his body shall be devoured, [Yea], the first-born of death shall devour his members.
Isa 14:19
72%
19But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
Nah 3:15
72%
15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.
Ps 31:10
72%
10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Job 31:12
72%
12For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.
Job 16:13-15
3 verses
72%
13His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.
14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.
15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.
Ps 22:13-15
3 verses
71%
13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.
14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Lam 3:16
71%
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
Job 38:14
71%
14It is changed as clay under the seal; And [all things] stand forth as a garment:
Job 33:11
71%
11He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.
Ps 109:18
71%
18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.
Ps 41:8
71%
8An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast unto him; And now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Ps 102:5
71%
5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
Ps 39:10-11
2 verses
71%
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
Heb 1:11
71%
11They shall perish; but thou continuest: And they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
Ps 102:11
71%
11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Ps 73:19
70%
19How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Prov 5:11
70%
11And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Joel 1:17
70%
17The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.