KJV King James Version
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.
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Job 27:18
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
WEB World English Bible
He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
ASV American Standard Version
He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.
Surrounding context — Job 27
15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.
16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
17 He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.
19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.
20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
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Isaiah 1:8And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.Job 8:14-15Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider’s web.Isaiah 51:8For 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.Isaiah 38:12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day [even] to night wilt thou make an end of me.Lamentations 2:6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were of] a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
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