Job 27:18
The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
In Context
17what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
19He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
Cross References
Job 8:14His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
Isaiah 38:12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
Lamentations 2:6He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
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 →