The Moth
7 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
(Eating a Garment) of God's Judgments
- 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.”
(Garments Eaten By) of Those Who Have Suffered Severe
- Job 13:28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.
(Making Its House in Garments) of Man's Folly in Providing
- Job 27:18 The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
Destroyed by the Slightest Touch
- 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!
Destructive to Garments
- Matthew 6:19 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
MothThe Wicked are Compared to Moth-Eaten GarmentsGarments of the Rich
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.