Moth
3 lines · 10 passages
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An insect
Job 4:19; 27:18; Ps 39:11
19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 4:1918 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Job 27:1811 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.
Psalms 39:11 -
Destructive of garments
Job 13:28; Isa 50:9; 51:8; Hos 5:12
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Job 13:289 Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
Isaiah 50:98 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Isaiah 51:812 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
Hosea 5:12 -
Figurative
Matt 6:19, 20; Jas 5:2
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Matthew 6:1920 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Matthew 6:202 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
James 5:2
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
