Job 8:15
He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.
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In Context
14His frenzy will not please him, and his faith will be like a spider’s web.
16He seems to have moisture before the sun arrives; and at sunrise, his sprout shoots forth.
Cross References
Job 18:14Let his confidence be torn away from his tabernacle, and let ruin trample over him like a king.
Psalms 49:11I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
Proverbs 14:11The house of the impious will be wiped away. Yet truly, the tabernacles of the just shall spring forth.
Matthew 7:24Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them shall be compared 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 →