Verse 18

He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

Referenced Verses

• Job 8:14-15 : 14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web. 15 He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
• Isa 1:8 : 8 The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
• Isa 38:12 : 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like 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 you will make an end of me.
• Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations."
• Lam 2:6 : 6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.