Job 8:15
He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
16He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.
Cross References
Job 18:14He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
Psalms 49:11Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes.
Psalms 112:10The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
Proverbs 14:11The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
Matthew 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them I will liken to a wise man who built his house on 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 →