Job 27:18
“He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.”
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Job 27:18 Context
16Though he heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay: 17He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall diuide the siluer. 18He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh. 19The rich man shall lie downe, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not: 20Terrours take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
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He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.
- King James Version
"He has built his house like the spider's web, Or as a hut {which} the watchman has made.
- New American Standard Version (1995)