Job 13:28
What does Job 13:28 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 13:28 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.
Context
v.27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hosea 5:12
Therefore am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
- Psalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. [Selah
- Job 4:19
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
- Job 30:29
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
- Numbers 12:12
Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.
- Job 30:17
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And thepainsthat gnaw me take no rest.
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