English Standard Version
Job 13:28
28Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
Job 13:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- New International Version (NIV)“So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Man decays like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I waste away like rotting wood, like a moth-eaten coat.
Context of Job 13:28
26For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. 27You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet. Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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וְ֭הוּא כְּרָקָ֣ב יִבְלֶ֑ה כְּ֝בֶ֗גֶד אֲכָ֣לוֹ עָֽשׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 13:28
- Job 30:17The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
- Numbers 12:12Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother's womb."
- Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
- Psalms 39:11When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
- Hosea 5:12But I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.
Commentaries on Job 13:28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28And 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28And 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-28Verses 23-28 Job begs to have his sins discovered to him. A true penitent is willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know what our transgressions are, that we may confess them, and guard against them for the future. Job complains sorrowfully of God's severe dealings with him. Time does not wear out the guilt of sin. When God writes bitter things against us, his design is to make us bring forgotten sins to mind, and so to bring us…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. Job speaks of himself in the third person, thus forming the transition to the general lot of man (Job 14:1; Psa 39:11; Ho 5:12).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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