Job 8:15
He leaneth upon his house, and it will not stand, he holdeth it fast, and it will not remain erect.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
14Whose trust shall be contemptible,—and, a spider’s web, his confidence:
16Full of moisture he is, before the sun, and, over his garden, his shoot goeth forth:
Cross References
Job 18:14Uprooted, out of his tent, be his confidence, and let it drive him down to the king of terrors;
Psalms 49:11Their, inward thought, is that their houses are for times age-abiding, Their habitations, for generation after generation,—They give their own names unto lands!
Psalms 112:10The lawless one, shall see, and be indignant, his teeth, will he gnash and melt away, The craving of the lawless, shall vanish.
Proverbs 14:11The house of the lawless, shall be destroyed, but, the tent of the upright, shall flourish.
Matthew 7:24Every one, therefore, who heareth [these] my words, and doeth them, shall be likened to a prudent 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 →