Job 27:18
The house he built is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
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as a moth

Job 8:14, 15
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider's web. . . .

Isaiah 51:8
For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.

as a booth

Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.

Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom. From day until night You make an end of me.

Lamentations 2:6
He has laid waste to His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
"He has built his house like the spider's web, Or as a hut which the watchman has made.

King James Bible
He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The house he built is like a moth's cocoon or a booth set up by a watchman.

International Standard Version
"He has built his house like a moth's cocoon, like a temporary sunshade that a watchman makes.

NET Bible
The house he builds is as fragile as a moth's cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
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