Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

Job 27:18

Judgment

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.

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.

Read the whole chapter

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
KJV
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
WEB
He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
ASV
He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
DARBY
He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.
BLB
He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth made [by] a watchman.
ÅB
Som møllet har han bygget sitt hus og som den hytte en markvokter lager seg.
OTB
Han bygger sitt hus som et edderkoppnett,
Eller et ly laget av en vaktmann.
B1930
Som møllet har han bygget sitt hus og som den hytte en markvokter lager sig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 8:14–15

    Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

    Read in context

  • Isaiah 1:8

    And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

    Read in context

  • 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.

    Read in context

  • Isaiah 38:12

    Mine 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.

    Read in context

  • Lamentations 2:6

    And 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.

    Read in context