Job 27:18 “The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a wat…”

Job 27:18

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

World English Bible

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

American Standard Version

He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

Geneva Bible 1599

He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.

Darby Translation

He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.

Young's Literal Translation

He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.

Bible in Basic English

His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

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Cross references

“as a moth”

Isaiah 51:8 Job 8:14 Job 8:15

Isaiah 51:8 · BSB

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.”

Job 8:14 · BSB

His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.

Job 8:15 · BSB

He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.

“as a booth”

Isaiah 1:8 Isaiah 38:12 Lamentations 2:6

Isaiah 1:8 · BSB

And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

Isaiah 38:12 · BSB

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

Lamentations 2:6 · BSB

He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

17what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.

19He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.

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