Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
New American Standard Bible
Or as a hut which the watchman has made.
King James Version
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
Holman Bible
or a booth set up by a watchman.
International Standard Version
"He has built his house like a moth's cocoon, like a temporary sunshade that a watchman makes.
A Conservative Version
He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
Amplified
“He builds his house like a spider’s web,
Like a (temporary) hut which a watchman makes.
Bible in Basic English
His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.
Darby Translation
He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.
Julia Smith Translation
He built his house as the moth, and as a booth he watching made.
King James 2000
He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that the keeper makes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth [that] a watchman has made.
Modern King James verseion
He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a watchman makes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
His house shall endure as the moth, and as a booth that the watchman maketh.
NET Bible
The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
New Heart English Bible
He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
The Emphasized Bible
He hath built, like a moth, his house, - like a hut, which a watcher hath made.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.
Themes
Insects » Mentioned in scripture » Moth
Moths » Illustrative » (making its house in garments,) of man's folly in providing earthly things
Interlinear
Banah
Bayith
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 27:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Final Speech
17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver. 18 He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh. 19 He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 8:14-15
Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web.
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 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 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: 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.