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OET (OET-RV) The wicked build easily-broken houses like the moths do,
⇔ and like temporary shelters that a guard quickly makes.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
בָּנָ֣ה כָעָ֣שׁ בֵּית֑וֹ וּ֝כְסֻכָּ֗ה עָשָׂ֥ה נֹצֵֽר
builds like_the,moth's house,his and,like,hut he/it_had_made watchman
The point of these comparisons is that the house of a moth, that is, its cocoon, is very fragile, as is a hut that a guard would build in a field out of branches to watch over crops during harvest time. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this point explicitly. Alternate translation: “The house that he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, as rickety as a hut that a guard would build out of branches”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
בָּנָ֣ה כָעָ֣שׁ בֵּית֑וֹ וּ֝כְסֻכָּ֗ה עָשָׂ֥ה נֹצֵֽר
builds like_the,moth's house,his and,like,hut he/it_had_made watchman
While the actual house of a wicked person might become abandoned and collapse from neglect, Job could be using the term house to represent the life of that person. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “The life that he creates for himself is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, as rickety as a hut that a guard would build from branches”
Note 3 topic: translate-unknown
בָּנָ֣ה כָעָ֣שׁ בֵּית֑וֹ
builds like_the,moth's house,his
A moth is a flying insect that is typically active at night. It begins life as a wingless larva. The larva eventually spins a silk cocoon around itself, and inside that cocoon, it changes into a flying moth. If your readers would not be familiar with what a moth is, in your translation you could use the name of a comparable creature that your readers would recognize and that similarly builds a fragile structure. The UST models one way to do this.
27:9-23 Some interpreters see a new speech here and ascribe it to Zophar because otherwise Zophar has no speech in this cycle.
OET (OET-RV) The wicked build easily-broken houses like the moths do,
⇔ and like temporary shelters that a guard quickly makes.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.