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Job 13

Job 13:28 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he, as a rotten thing
raqab (Hebrew #7538)
decay (by caries)
KJV usage: rottenness (thing).
Pronounce: raw-kawb'
Origin: from 7537
, consumeth
balah (Hebrew #1086)
to fail; by implication to wear out, decay (causatively, consume, spend)
KJV usage: consume, enjoy long, become (make, wax) old, spend, waste.
Pronounce: baw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
, as a garment
beged (Hebrew #899)
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
KJV usage: apparel, cloth(-es, ing), garment, lap, rag, raiment, robe, X very (treacherously), vesture, wardrobe.
Pronounce: behg'-ed
Origin: from 898
that is moth
`ash (Hebrew #6211)
a moth
KJV usage: moth. See also 5906.
Pronounce: awsh
Origin: from 6244
eaten
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
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Garments,
Moth

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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And he.
Job 30:17‑19,29‑30• 17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
 18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
 19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
 29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
 30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. (Job 30:17‑19,29‑30)
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Num. 12:12• 12Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb. (Num. 12:12)
as a garment.
Job 4:19• 19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? (Job 4:19)
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Psa. 39:11• 11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. (Psa. 39:11)
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Hos. 5:12• 12Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. (Hos. 5:12)
• He watches him, and makes his fancied robe of righteousness look like a moth-eaten garment. So Job charges his Maker, and does not pause to hear what He will reply (vers. 24-28). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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b
Or "and he [whom thou pursuest] consumeth as a rotten thing, as," etc.