Job 27:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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

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 unto all generations.

Lamentations 2:6

And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: the LORD hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

Isaiah 38:12

Mine age is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up like a weaver my life; he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Job 18:14

He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.