And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job 13:28 stands within Job's extended dialogue with his friends concerning the cause and purpose of human suffering. It pictures a human being wasting away like something rotten and like a garment consumed by moths, employing images of decay and deterioration to set forth human frailty. The broad claims the friends advanced about suffering contained general truth yet were misapplied to Job's own case. Such wasting and affliction is therefore no proof that the one enduring it lies under God's displeasure.
Job 13:28 stands within Job's extended dialogue with his friends concerning the cause and purpose of human suffering. It pictures a human being wasting away like something rotten and like a garment consumed by moths, employing images of decay and deterioration to set forth human frailty. The broad claims the friends advanced about suffering contained general truth yet were misapplied to Job's own case. Such wasting and affliction is therefore no proof that the one enduring it lies under God's displeasure.