Job 13:28
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28 One wastes away like a rotten thing,
like a garment that is moth-eaten.(A)
Psalm 39:11
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11 “You chastise mortals
in punishment for sin,
consuming like a moth what is dear to them;
surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah(A)
Job 4:19
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19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth.(A)
Hosea 5:12
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12 Therefore I am like maggots to Ephraim
and like rottenness to the house of Judah.(A)
Job 30:29-30
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29 I am a brother of jackals
and a companion of ostriches.(A)
30 My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.(B)
Job 30:17-19
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17 The night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
18 With violence he seizes my garment;[a]
he grasps me by[b] the collar of my tunic.
19 He has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like dust and ashes.(A)
Numbers 12:12
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12 Do not let her be like one stillborn, whose flesh is half consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb.”
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