18He builds his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper makes.


In Context

15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

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

18 He builds his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper makes.

19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he opens his eyes, and he is not.

20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.

Job 27:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:18He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

27:18The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:18He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:18He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:18He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:18He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper maketh.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:18He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:18He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:18He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.