TO WEAR OUT, grow old — used of cloth and leather, and once transferred to a woman doubting she could still bear a child (‘after I am worn out, shall I have pleasure?’, Genesis 18:12, already on these pages). Deuteronomy 8:4 (already on these pages) says the wilderness generation's own GARMENT did not wear out across forty years; this chapter adds the SANDAL specifically (29:4) — two different articles of clothing, in two different chapters, both denied the ordinary fate of anything worn for four decades. → first discussed at Gen 18:12