Moth

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

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. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
• James 5:2 Your riches have rotted and moths have eaten your clothes.