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Job 8:15
15He trusts in his house, but it does not stand; He holds tightly to it, but it does not endure.
Job 8:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
- New International Version (NIV)They lean on the web, but it gives way; they cling to it, but it does not hold.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He leans on his house, but it does not stand. He holds it fast, but it does not endure.
Context of Job 8:15
13So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the godless will perish, 14For his confidence is fragile and breaks, And his trust is [like] a spider’s web. He trusts in his house, but it does not stand; He holds tightly to it, but it does not endure. 16He thrives and prospers [like a green plant] before the sun, And his branches spread out over his garden. 17His [godless] roots are wrapped around a pile of rocks, And he gazes at a house of stones.
Read all of Job 8Job 8:15 word by word
יִשָּׁעֵ֣ן עַל־בֵּ֭יתוֹ וְלֹ֣א יַעֲמֹ֑ד יַחֲזִ֥יק בּ֝֗וֹ וְלֹ֣א יָקֽוּם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 8:15
- Job 18:14He is torn from his tent which he trusted [for safety], And he is marched and brought to the king of terrors (death).
- Job 27:18He builds his house like a spider’s web, Like a (temporary) hut which a watchman makes.
- Psalms 52:5But God will break you down forever; He will take you away and tear you away from your tent, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.
- Psalms 112:10The wicked will see it and be angered, He will gnash his teeth and melt away [in despair and death]; The desire of the wicked will perish and come to nothing.
- Proverbs 10:28The hope of the righteous [those of honorable character and integrity] is joy, But the expectation of the wicked [those who oppose God and ignore His wisdom] comes to nothing.
- Matthew 7:24“So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, will be like a wise man [a far-sighted, practical, and sensible man] who built his house on the rock.
- Luke 6:47Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and obeys them, I will show you whom he is like:
Commentaries on Job 8:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15He shall lean upon his house - This is all allusion to the spider. When he suspects his web, here called his house, to be frail or unsure, he leans upon it in different parts, propping himself on his hinder legs, and pulling with his fore claws, to see if all be safe. If he find any part of it injured, he immediately adds new cordage to that part, and attaches it strongly to the wall. When he finds all safe and strong, he retires into his hole at one…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15He shall lean upon his house - This is an allusion to the web or house of the spider. The hope of the hypocrite is called the house which he has built for himself; his home, his refuge, his support. But it shall fail him. In times of trial he will trust to it for support, and it will be found to be as frail as the web of the spider. How little the light and slender thread which a spider spins would avail a man for support in time of danger! So frail and…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-19Verses 8-19 Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very green, but withering in dry…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1515. he shall hold it fast--implying his eager grasp, when the storm of trial comes: as the spider "holds fast" by its web; but with this difference: the light spider is sustained by that on which it rests; the godless is not by the thin web on which he rests. The expression, "Hold fast," properly applies to the spider holding his web, but is transferred to the man. Hypocrisy, like the spider's web, is fine-spun, flimsy, and woven out of its own…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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