Job 27:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ They build their houses like nests, like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ He builds his house like a moth or a spider, like a booth which a watchman makes [to last for a season].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ They built their houses like nests, like a hut made by a watchman.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ He has built his house like a moth, and he has made a makeshift shelter like a sentry.

Job 27:18 Cross References

Isaiah 1:8

And daughter Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.

Isaiah 51:8

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

Lamentations 2:6

He has broken down his booth like a garden; he has destroyed his tabernacle; the Lord has abolished in Zion festival and Sabbath and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;

Job 18:14

They are torn from the tent in which they trusted and are brought to the king of terrors.