Job 27:18

Bible in Basic English 1965

His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

Cross References

Job 18:14

He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

Isaiah 1:8

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.

Isaiah 38:12

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

Isaiah 51:8

For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.

Lamentations 2:6

And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.