Job 13:28

So I ¹  waste away like something rotten, ²  like a garment eaten by moths.

Nu 12:12; Job 4:19; Job 30:17-19,29,30; Ps 39:11; Ho 5:12

¹ tn Heb “and he.” Some of the commentators move the verse and put it after Job 14:2, 3 or 6.

² tn The word רָקָב (raqav) is used elsewhere in the Bible of dry rot in a house, or rotting bones in a grave. It is used in parallelism with “moth” both here and in Hos 5:12. The LXX has “like a wineskin.” This would be from רֹקֶב (roqev, “wineskin”). This word does not occur in the Hebrew Bible, but is attested in Sir 43:20 and in Aramaic. The change is not necessary.