Job 27:18
He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ædificavit sicut tinea domum suam, et sicut custos fecit umbraculum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἀπέβη δὲ ὁ οἶκος αὐτοῦ ὥσπερ σῆτες καὶ ὥσπερ ἀράχνη.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- בָּנָ֣ה כָעָ֣שׁ בֵּית֑וֹ וּ֝כְסֻכָּ֗ה עָשָׂ֥ה נֹצֵֽר
Haydock's commentary
Moth. Hebrew, "as the polar star." (Junius)
But the Chaldean, &c., translate with the Vulgate, which agrees better with the latter part of the verse. The moth devours another's property, like the wicked man, who lodges commodiously, though not at his own expense.
Keeper of a field, or of a vineyard. (Calmet)
Septuagint, "His house has slipt away like a moth, and what he has kept (or his riches) like a spider." (Haydock)
The moth demolishes its own house, and is then disturbed, (Menochius) or thrown with the rotten wood into the fire.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.