Job 8:15
He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
14Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
16He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.
Cross References
Job 18:14He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
Psalms 49:11\49:10\For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.
Psalms 112:10The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
Proverbs 14:11The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.
Matthew 7:24Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a 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 →