Job 8:15
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand. He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
14whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.
16He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
Cross References
Job 18:14He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts, and he shall be brought to the king of terrors.
Psalms 49:11Their inward thought is [that] their houses [are] forever, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names.
Psalms 112:10A wicked man shall see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of wicked men shall perish.
Proverbs 14:11The house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tent of the upright shall flourish.
Matthew 7:24Therefore every man, whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will compare him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:9-20
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:… Read the whole commentary →