Job 27:18

WEB

¹⁸He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

KJV

¹⁸He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

BSB

¹⁸The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

FBV

¹⁸They build their houses like a moth;^[+] like some flimsy shelter made by a watchman.

Extra References

Isaiah 1:8

⁸The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

Job 8:14-15

¹⁴whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web. ¹⁵He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.

Isaiah 51:8

⁸For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

¹²My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

Lamentations 2:6

⁶He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.