Job Chapter 27 verse 18 Holy Bible
He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.
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His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.
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He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a booth that a keeper maketh.
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He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
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He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.
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He builds his house as the moth, As a booth which the watchman makes.
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He hath built as a moth his house, And as a booth a watchman hath made.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - He buildeth his house as a moth. The moth is the symbol of fragility, decay, and weakness. The wicked man's attempt to build himself up a house, and establish a powerful family, is no better than a moth's attempt to make itself a permanent habitation. As moths do not construct dwellings for themselves, it has been proposed (Merx) to read כעכבישׁ, "as a spider," for מעשׁ, "as a moth;" but the change is too great to be at all probable. May not the cocoon, from which the moth issues as. from a house, have been in Job's mind? The hawk-moth buries itself in a neat cave for the pupa stage; and there may have been even better examples in Uz. But we ourselves have not known these facts long, and therefore we need not be surprised to find Job making a mistake in natural history. And as a booth that the keeper maketh. Huts or lodges of boughs were set up in vineyards and orchards by those who had to watch them (see Isaiah 1:8; Lamentations 2:6). They were habitations of the weakest and frailest kind.
