Job 27:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.

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  • Job 8:14-15 : 14 Whose hope will be cut off, and whose trust is a spider's web. 15 He shall lean on his house, but it will not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it will not endure.
  • Isa 1:8 : 8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
  • Isa 38:12 : 12 My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.
  • Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool: but my righteousness will last forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
  • Lam 2:6 : 6 And He has violently taken away His tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: He has destroyed His places of the assembly: the Lord has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest.

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  • Job 27:19-20
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    19 The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

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  • Job 27:16-17
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    16 Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares clothing as the clay;

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    28 And he, like a decaying thing, consumes, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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    9 Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

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