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Job 13:28 — King James Version← Study notes

And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.


Job 13:28Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 13:286 words
HebrewMeaning
וְ֭/הוּאwəhwʾ
and heconjH1931
as for her · him · it · the same ···
כְּ/רָקָ֣בkərāqāb
like rottennesspronH7538
יִבְלֶ֑הyibəleh
he wears outverbH1086
enjoy long · become (make · wax) old · spend ···
כְּ֝/בֶ֗גֶדkəbeged
like a garmentpronH899
cloth(-es · ing) · garment · lap ···
אֲכָ֣ל/וֹʾăkālwō
which it eats itverbH398
at all · consume · devour(-er · up) ···
עָֽשׁʿāš
a mothnounH6211
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 13:28

Who am as a rotten thing to be consumed, and as a garment that is moth eaten. For as a garment is eaten by the moth sprung out of itself, so man containeth rottenness in himself, whereby he consumeth, and that which he is, is that whereby he consumeth that he should not be. Which may be taken in another sense also, if it be said in the voice of man when tempted; And I as a rotten thing am to consume, as a garment that is moth eaten. For man ‘as a rotten thing consumeth,’ in…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 11 §63
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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