Job 13:28
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
BSB
ASV
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
KJV
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
And he, as a rotten thing - I am like a vessel made of skin; rotten, because of old age, or like a garment corroded by the moth. So the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic understood it. The word he may refer to himself.
He - He speaks of himself in the third person, as is usual in this and other sacred books. So the sense is, he, this poor frail creature, this body of mine; which possibly he pointed at with his finger, consumeth or pineth away.
He (that is, man) as a rotten thing, the principle of whose putrefaction is in itself, consumes, even like a moth-eaten garment, which becomes continually worse and worse. Or, He (that is, God) like rottenness, and like a moth, consumes me.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
leads to
Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.”
That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Through
Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
leads to
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Through
Hosea 5:12So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
leads to
For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”