Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

As a moth

Bible References

As a moth

Job 8:14
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
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 forever, and my salvation to all generations."

As a booth

Isaiah 1:8
The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like 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 you will make an end of me.
Lamentations 2:6
He has done violence to his temple, as if it were a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. He has spurned in his fierce anger the king and the priest.