Job 13:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:19 : 19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)
  • Hos 5:12 : 12 The Curse of the Incurable Wound I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.
  • Job 30:17-19 : 17 Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease. 18 With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic. 19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
  • Job 30:29-30 : 29 I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches. 30 My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.
  • Num 12:12 : 12 Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”

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    12The Curse of the Incurable Wound I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.

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    26For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.

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    2Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten.

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