Job 13:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he, like a decaying thing, consumes, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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  • Job 4:19 : 19 How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 When you correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, you make his beauty to fade like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
  • Job 30:17-19 : 17 My bones are pierced in me at night, and my sinews find no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat. 19 He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
  • Job 30:29-30 : 29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to owls. 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
  • Num 12:12 : 12 'Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.'

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  • 12Therefore I will be to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

  • Job 13:26-27
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    26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

    27You put my feet also in the stocks, and watch closely all my paths; you set a mark upon the soles of my feet.

  • Job 33:21-22
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    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones, that were not seen, stick out.

    22Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

  • Job 7:5-6
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    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken and becomes loathsome.

    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

  • Job 30:18-19
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    18By the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat.

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 2Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

  • 8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool: but my righteousness will last forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

  • 4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

  • 11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth.

  • 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • Isa 38:12-13
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    12My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.

    13I counted till morning, that as a lion, so will He break all my bones: from day to night You make an end of me.

  • 18He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.

  • 13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Job 16:8-9
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    8You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

    9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

  • 9Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they all shall wear out like a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

  • 28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

  • Job 4:19-20
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    19How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

    20They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • Job 18:12-13
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    12His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

    13It shall consume the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall consume his strength.

  • 19But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; like a carcass trodden under foot.

  • 15There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

  • 10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 12For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

  • Job 16:13-15
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    13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.

    15I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.

  • Ps 22:13-15
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    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and 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 clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

  • 14It is changed like clay under the seal; and they stand out like a garment.

  • 11He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.

  • 18As he clothed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

  • 8‘An evil disease,’ they say, ‘clings to him; now that he lies down, he will rise up no more.’

  • 5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • Ps 39:10-11
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    10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

    11When you correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, you make his beauty to fade like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

  • 11They shall perish; but You remain; and they all shall grow old as does a garment;

  • 11My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

  • 19How they are brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • 11And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • 17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.