Moth, The

Destructive to garments.
Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

James 5:2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
Destroyed by the slightest touch.
Job 4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
ILLUSTRATIVE

Of God in the execution of His judgments.
Hosea 5:12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
(Eating a garment,) of God's judgments.
Isaiah 50:9 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 51:8 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.
(Garments eaten by,) of those who have suffered severe judgments.
Job 13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

(Making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things.
Job 27:18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.