The house he built is like a moth's cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
Cross References
Job 8:15He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
Job 18:14He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
Treasury of Scripture
He builds his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper makes.
as a moth
Job 8:14,15
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web…
Isaiah 51:8
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
as a booth
Isaiah 1:8
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.
Isaiah 38:12
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Lamentations 2:6
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
