Job 13:28
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Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.

And he

Job 30:17-19,29,30 In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep. . . .

Numbers 12:12 Let her not be as one dead, and as an abortive that is cast forth from the mother's womb. Lo, now one half of her flesh is consumed with the leprosy.

as a garment

Job 4:19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?

Psalm 39:11 Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Hosea 5:12 And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
27Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet: 28Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.
Cross References
James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

Job 2:7
So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

Job 17:14
I have said to rottenness: Thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister.

Psalm 39:11
Thou hast corrected man for iniquity. And thou hast made his soul to waste away like a spider: surely in vain is any man disquieted.

Isaiah 50:9
Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.

Lexicon
So man
וְ֭הוּא (wə·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

wastes away
יִבְלֶ֑ה (yiḇ·leh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1086: To fail, to wear out, decay

like something rotten,
כְּרָקָ֣ב (kə·rā·qāḇ)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7538: Rottenness, decay

like a moth-eaten
אֲכָ֣לוֹ (’ă·ḵā·lōw)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

garment.
כְּ֝בֶ֗גֶד (kə·ḇe·ḡeḏ)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage


Additional Translations
So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.

Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.

One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.

Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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.

And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
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