Parallel Verses
King James 2000
And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
New American Standard Bible
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
King James Version
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Holman Bible
like a moth-eaten garment.
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International Standard Version
So I'm a man who wears out like something rotten, like a garment that has become moth-eaten."
A Conservative Version
Though I am like a rotten thing that decays, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
American Standard Version
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Amplified
While I waste away like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Bible in Basic English
Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Darby Translation
One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
Julia Smith Translation
And he as rottenness will fall away; as a garment the moth ate it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.
Modern King James verseion
And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that a moth eats.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whereas I, notwithstanding, must consume like as a foul carrion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.
NET Bible
So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
New Heart English Bible
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
The Emphasized Bible
And, a man himself, as a rotten thing, weareth out, as a garment which the moth hath eaten.
Webster
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
World English Bible
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Youngs Literal Translation
And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
Themes
Garments » Of the rich » Often moth-eaten
Moth » Destructive of garments
Moths » Illustrative » (garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments
Interlinear
Balah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Argues His Case With God
27 You put my feet also in the stocks, and watch closely all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet. 28 And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 4:19
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
Numbers 12:12
Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.
Job 30:17-19
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job 30:29-30
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Psalm 39:11
When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Hosea 5:12
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.