Job 8:15
He will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
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In Context
14whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
16He is green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
Cross References
Job 18:14He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.
Psalms 49:11Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
Psalms 112:10The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
Proverbs 14:11The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
Matthew 7:24“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him 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 →