Job 27:18

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He builds his house like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made by a watchman.

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  • Job 8:14-15 : 14 Their confidence is easily cut off, and their trust is like a spider's web. 15 They lean on their house, but it does not stand; they grasp it, but it does not hold firm.
  • Isa 1:8 : 8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
  • Isa 38:12 : 12 My dwelling is pulled up and taken from me, like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver rolls a cloth; He cuts me off from the loom. Day and night You bring me to an end.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth will eat them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, and My salvation through all generations.
  • Lam 2:6 : 6 He has violently done away with his dwelling, as if it were a garden, destroying his appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused Zion to forget its appointed times and Sabbaths. In his fierce anger, he has despised king and priest alike.

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    19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

    20 From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.

  • Job 15:28-29
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    28 he will dwell in desolated cities, in houses no one inhabits, destined to become ruins.

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  • Job 8:15
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    15 They lean on their house, but it does not stand; they grasp it, but it does not hold firm.

  • Job 27:19-20
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    75%

    19 The rich man lies down, but he will not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

    20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a storm sweeps him away.

  • Job 20:18-19
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    18 He will give back the fruit of his labor but will not swallow it; like the wealth of his trade, he will not enjoy it.

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  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13 Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice, making his neighbor work for nothing and not paying him for his labor.

    14 He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.

  • Job 27:16-17
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    16 Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up clothes like clay,

    17 he may prepare it, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide his silver.

  • Job 13:28
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    28 So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

  • Hab 2:9
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    9 Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!

  • Eccl 10:18
    73%

    18 Because of laziness, the roof sinks, and through idle hands, the house leaks.

  • Prov 24:27
    72%

    27 Prepare your work outside and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.

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    27 Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Because of this, they have become great and rich.

  • Job 20:26-28
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    71%

    26 Total darkness is hidden for his treasures; a fire not kindled by man will consume him and devour what remains in his tent.

    27 The heavens will expose his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him.

    28 The produce of his house will be carried away, flowing away on the day of God's wrath.

  • Job 18:14-15
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    14 He is uprooted from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.

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    1 Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stay awake in vain.

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    6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

    7 His vigorous steps will be restricted, and his own counsel will cast him down.

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    14 With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves.

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    11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

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    18 Yet it was He who filled their houses with good things, though the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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    3 By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established.

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    29 Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be a servant to the wise of heart.

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    11 For the LORD has given the command: The great house will be shattered into pieces, and the small house into bits.

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    21 Surely these are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of one who does not know God.

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    15 Behold, the wicked conceives evil, is pregnant with mischief, and gives birth to lies.

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    2 Your wealth has rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.

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    21 So it is with one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.

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    69%

    18 They are like straw before the wind and like chaff carried away by a storm.

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    69%

    19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

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    15 The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.

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