Job 27:18
He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper maketh.
Revised Version 1895
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 lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered; he openeth his eyes, and he is not.
Cross References
Job 8:14Whose confidence shall break in sunder, and whose trust is a spider’s web.
Isaiah 38:12Mine age 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 wilt thou make an end of me.
Lamentations 2:6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: the LORD hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the 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 →