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Job 13:28
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A person wears out like something rotten,like a moth-eaten garment.
Though I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
"Everyone wears out like something rotten, like clothing eaten by moths.
So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
While I waste away like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
While I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Though I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.
While I am decaying like a rotten thing,Like a garment that is moth‑eaten.
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
I am rotting away like cloth eaten by worms.
though [my body] decays like something rotten or like a moth-eaten garment.
One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
So I am becoming weaker and weaker, like a piece of wood rotting away, like a piece of cloth eaten by moths.
Yet a man is like a worn-out waterskin, and a garment that is moth-eaten.
As a result, I crumble like rotten wood, like a moth-eaten coat.
And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that the moth has eaten.
And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment which a moth eats.
where as I (notwithstondinge) must consume like as a foule carion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
And hee, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
And I as a rotten thing do consume away, as a garment that is moth eaten.
I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
And Y schal be wastid as rot, and as a cloth, which is etun of a mouyte.
Though I am like a rotten thing that consumes, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
I waste away like rotting wood, like a moth-eaten coat.
I am wasting away like a piece of dead wood, like clothing eaten by the moth.
One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
And, a man himself, as a rotten thing, weareth out, as a garment which the moth hath eaten.
Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.
Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
"Like something rotten, human life fast decomposes, like a moth-eaten shirt or a mildewed blouse."
While I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
And he: Job 30:17-19, Job 30:29, Job 30:30, Numbers 12:12
as a garment: Job 4:19, Psalms 39:11, Hosea 5:12
Reciprocal: Job 6:11 - What Job 33:21 - His flesh Isaiah 50:9 - they all Isaiah 51:8 - the moth James 5:2 - your garments
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he as a rotten thing consumeth,.... This by some Jewish writers z is referred to and connected with the driven leaf and dry stubble Job compares himself to, Job 13:25; and so the sense is, that his body, which, for its frailty and weakness, is compared to such things, is like any rotten thing, a rotten tree, as Ben Melech; or any thing else that is rotten, that is consuming and wasting away, as Job's body was, being clothed with worms and clods of dust:
as a garment that is moth eaten; a woollen garment, which gathers dust, out of which motifs arise; for dust, in wool and woollen garments produces moths, as Aristotle a and Pliny b observe; and a garment eaten by them, slowly, gradually, and insensibly, yet certainly, decays, falls to pieces, becomes useless, and not to be recovered; such was Job's body, labouring under the diseases it did, and was every day more and more decaying, crumbling into dust, and just ready to drop into the grave; so that there was no need, and it might seem cruel, to lay greater and heavier afflictions on it: some interpreters make this "he" to be God himself who sometimes is as rottenness and a moth to men, in their persons, families, and estates; see Hosea 5:12.
z R. Levi, Ben Gersom, & Bar Tzemach. a Hist. Animal. l. 5. c. 32. b Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 35.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth - Noyes renders this, “And I, like an abandoned thing, shall waste away.” Dr. Good translates it, “Well may he dissolve as corrupttion.” Rosenmuller supposes that Job refers to himself by the word הוּא hû' - he, and that having spoken of himself in the previous verses, he now changes the mode of speech, and speaks in the third person. In illustration of this, he refers to a passage in Euripides, “Alcestes,” verse 690. The Vulgate renders it in the first person, “Qui quasi putredo consumendus sum.” The design seems to be, to represent himself as an object not worthy such consent surveillance on the part of God. God set his mark upon him; watched him with a close vigilance and a steady eye - and yet he was watching one who was turning fast to corruption, and who would soon be gone. He regarded it as unworthy of God, to be so attentive in watching over so worthless an object. This is closely connected with the following chapter, and there should have been no interruption here. The allusion to himself as feeble and decaying, leads him into the beautiful description in the following chapter of the state of man in general. The connection is something like this: - “I am afflicted and tried in various ways. My feet are in the stocks; my way is hedged up. I am weak, frail, and dying. But so it is with man universally. My condition is like that of the man at large, for
“Man, the offspring of a woman,
Is short-lived, and is full of trouble.”
As a rotten thing, - כרקב kerâqâb. The word רקב râqab means rottenness, or caries of bones; Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 14:30; Hosea 5:12. Here it means anything that is going to decay, and the comparison is that of man to anything that is thus constantly decaying, and that will soon be wholly gone.
Consumeth. - Or rather “decays,” יבלה yı̂bâlâh. The word בלה bâlâh is applied to that which falls away or decays, which is worn out and waxes old - as a garment; Deuteronomy 8:4; Isaiah 50:9; Isaiah 51:6.
As a garment that is moth-eaten - “As a garment the moth consumes it.” Hebrew On the word moth, and the sentiment here expressed, see the notes at Job 4:19.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 13:28. 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.
