Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
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.
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.
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 puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print, 28 And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 4:19
Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
Numbers 12:12
let her not, I pray thee, be as one dead, when in his coming out from the womb of his mother -- the half of his flesh is consumed.'
Job 30:17-19
At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
Job 30:29-30
A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
Psalm 39:11
With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.
Hosea 5:12
And I am as a moth to Ephraim, And as a rotten thing to the house of Judah.