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


In Context

15 The plague will bury those who survive him, and their widows will not weep for them.

16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay,

17 what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.

18 The house he builds is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut made 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 snatches 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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