Job 27:18

Modern

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

Traditional

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

Literal

He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth made by a watchman.

Latin

Ædificavit sicut tinea domum suam, et sicut custos fecit umbraculum.

Hebrew

English

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

Some interpreters think this is a new speech by Zophar. Without it, Zophar has no speech in this cycle.

Job 8:14–15
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
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 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.”
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 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.