Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Bible References

And he

Job 30:17

“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Numbers 12:12
Oh, do not let her be like one dead, already half decomposed when he comes from his mother’s womb.”

As a garment

Job 4:19

‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,
Whose foundations are in the dust,
Who are crushed like a moth.
Psalm 39:11

“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;
You consume like a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.
Hosea 5:12

Therefore I am like a moth to Ephraim
And like dry rot to the house of Judah [in My judgment against them].