Job 27:18

Job chapter 27 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

v.18This passage

v.19He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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: Jehovah 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

    My dwelling 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.

  • 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.

  • Job 8:14

    Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider’s web.