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Job 27:18
Job 27:18 is verse 18 of Job chapter 27, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
King James Version
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
World English Bible
He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
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Job 27:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
17 what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
18 The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
19 He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 8:14His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
Job 8:15He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
Isaiah 51:8For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
Isaiah 1:8And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
Isaiah 38:12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
Lamentations 2:6He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.