King James Version:
(The Lord speaking is red text)
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Complete Jewish Bible:
though [my body] decays like something rotten or like a moth-eaten garment.
Berean Standard Bible:
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
American Standard Version:
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
KJV with Strong’s Numbers:
And he, as a rotten thing{H7538}, consumeth{H1086}, as a garment{H899} that is moth{H6211} eaten{H398}.
Cross-References (KJV):
Job 4:19
- How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
Psalms 39:11
- 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.
Job 30:17
- My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job 30:19
- He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Hosea 5:12
- Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Numbers 12:12
- Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
Job 30:29
- I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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Commentary for Job 13:28
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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:
Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)
- Strong's Number: H7538
There are 5 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: רָקָב
Transliteration: râqâb
Pronunciation: raw-kawb'
Description: from רָקַב; decay (by caries); rottenness (thing). - Strong's Number: H1086
There are 15 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: בָּלָה
Transliteration: bâlâh
Pronunciation: baw-law'
Description: a primitive root; to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend); consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste. - Strong's Number: H899
There are 190 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: בֶּגֶד
Transliteration: beged
Pronunciation: behg'-ed
Description: from בָּגַד; a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage; apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, [idiom] very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe. - Strong's Number: H6211
There are 12 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: עָשׁ
Transliteration: ʻâsh
Pronunciation: awsh
Description: from עָשֵׁשׁ; a moth; moth. See also עַיִשׁ. - Strong's Number: H398
There are 825 instances of this translation in the Bible
Lemma: אָכַל
Transliteration: ʼâkal
Pronunciation: aw-kal'
Description: a primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively); [idiom] at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, [idiom] freely, [idiom] in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, [idiom] quite.