Moth
9 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
An Insect
- Job 4:19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- Job 27:18 The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
- Psalm 39:11 You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
Destructive of Garments
- Job 13:28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
- Isaiah 50:9 Surely the Lord GOD helps Me. Who is there to condemn Me? See, they will all wear out like a garment; the moths will devour them.
- Isaiah 51:8 For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
- Hosea 5:12 So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
Figurative
- Matthew 6:19–20 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. …
- James 5:2 Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.
Related topics
The Moth of God in the Execution of his JudgmentsThe MothThe Wicked are Compared to Moth-Eaten Garments
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.