Parallel Verses
Amplified
“He builds his house like a spider’s web,
Like a (temporary) hut which a watchman makes.
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.
American Standard Version
He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
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 will wear it
And the innocent will divide the silver.
“He builds his house like a spider’s web,
Like a (temporary) hut which a watchman makes.
“He lies down rich, but never will again;
He opens his eyes, and it is gone.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 8:14-15
For his confidence is fragile and breaks,
And his trust is [like] a spider’s web.
Isaiah 1:8
The Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem) is left like a [deserted] shelter in a vineyard,
Like a watchman’s hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city [isolated, surrounded by devastation].
Isaiah 38:12
“My dwelling (body) is pulled up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent;
I have rolled up my life as a weaver [rolls up the finished web].
He cuts me free from the warp [of the loom];
From day to night You bring me to an end.
Isaiah 51:8
“For the moth will eat them like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness and justice [faithfully promised] will exist forever,
And My salvation to all generations.”
Lamentations 2:6
And He has violently broken down His temple like a [fragile] garden hedge;
He has destroyed His appointed meeting place.
The Lord has caused the appointed feast and Sabbath
To be forgotten in Zion
And has despised and rejected the king and the priest
In the indignation of His anger.