Job 27:18
He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
In Context
17he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
19He lays down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers]. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
Cross References
Job 8:14whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.
Isaiah 38:12My 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 thou will make an end of me.
Lamentations 2:6And he has taken away his tabernacle violently, as a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. And in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and
Matthew Henry on Job 27:12-23
Heritage of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. 12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain? 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. 14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall… Read the whole commentary →