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Job 13:28

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13:28So I66 waste away like something rotten,67

like a garment eaten by moths.

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Footnotes

  1. 66 Heb “and he.” Some of the commentators move the verse and put it after Job 14:2, 3 or 6.
  2. 67 The word רָקָב (raqav) is used elsewhere in the Bible of dry rot in a house, or rotting bones in a grave. It is used in parallelism with “moth” both here and in Hos 5:12. The has “like a wineskin.” This would be from רֹקֶב (roqev, “wineskin”). This word does not occur in the Hebrew Bible, but is attested in Sir 43:20 and in Aramaic. The change is not necessary.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Man wastes away like a rotten thing,

like a garment that is moth-eaten.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“So man wastes away like something rotten,

like a garment eaten by moths.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

A person wears out like something rotten,

like a moth-eaten garment.

NLTNew Living Translation

I waste away like rotting wood,

like a moth-eaten coat.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And he himself wastes away like something rotten,

like a garment that the moth has eaten.

KJV 1900King James Version

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth,

As a garment that is moth eaten.