28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-28)Here, I. Job enquires after his sins, and begs to have them discovered to him. He looks up to God, and asks him what was the number of them ( How many are my iniquities ?) and what were the particulars of them: Make me to know my transgressions , Job 13:23. His friends were ready enough to tell him how numerous and how heinous they were, Job 22:5. “But, Lord,” says he, “let me know them from thee;…
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