King James Version (KJV)
Job 27:18
“He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.”
Verse in context — Job 27
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Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
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He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth [that] the keeper maketh.
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The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he [is] not.
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Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
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