Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has 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.
King James 2000
And he, like a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth-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 And you put my feet in the block, and you watch all my paths; you carve [a mark] on the soles of my feet. 28 And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 4:19
How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.
Numbers 12:12
Please do not let her be like the dead, whose flesh is half consumed when coming out from the womb of its mother."
Job 30:17-19
{At night I am in great pain}; my pains do not take a rest.
Job 30:29-30
I am a companion for [the] jackals and a companion for {ostriches}.
Psalm 39:11
[When] with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you {consume} like a moth his delightful [things]. Surely everyone [is] a [mere] vapor. Selah
Hosea 5:12
But I [am] like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah.