Job 27:18 · KJV
“He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth {that} the keeper maketh.”
— Job 27:18
He may prepare {it}, but the just shall put {it} on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he {is} not.
Job 27 — Context
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
17He may prepare {it}, but the just shall put {it} on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
18He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth {that} the keeper maketh.
19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he {is} not.
20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Cross References
Job 8:14-15
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust {shall be} a spider's web. {web: Heb. house}
Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
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 from generation to generation.
Isaiah 38:12
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day {even} to night wilt thou make an end of me. {with...: or, from the thrum}
Lamentations 2:6
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as {if it were of} a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. {tabernacle: or, hedge}