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He builds his house as the moth, As a booth which the watchman makes.
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The Illusion of Permanence
Commentators unanimously explain that the two images in this verse—a moth's cocoon and a watchman's temporary hut—symbolize the extreme fragility of a wicked person's security. Their 'house,' representing their wealth and status, is as easily destroyed as a cocoon brushed from a garment or a flimsy shelter abandoned after the harvest.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He buildeth his house as a moth—The house which the moth builds is the slight fabric it makes for its own dwelling in the garment i…
19th Century
Baptist
He buildeth his house as a moth, which makes its home in the cloth, but the servant's brush knocks it all out and destroys the moth's chil…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He builds his house as a moth Which builds its house in a garment by eating into it, and so destroying it, and in ti…
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Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were …
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, Job had successfully refuted the speech of Bildad, who had cited divine power against him as if Job were ignorant of its greatness. Whe…
