"He wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten." The verse concludes chapter 13 with an image of decay. Job—or humanity more broadly—deteriorates under the weight of divine judgment. The comparison to moth-eaten cloth suggests that the decay is internal, inevitable, progressive. Time itself becomes the instrument through which God accomplishes destruction. Chapter 13 ends with Job suspended between defiant assertion of his righteousness and vivid awareness of his dissolution.

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