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Job 13:28

Job 13:28 is verse 28 of Job chapter 13, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 13:26–28 · Berean Standard Bible

26 For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.

27 You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.

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Job 30:17
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

Job 30:18
With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.

Job 30:19
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:29
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

Numbers 12:12
Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Job 4:19
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Psalms 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Hosea 5:12
So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.