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Job 8:15
15If they expect something like that to help them, it will fall down and leave them. If they take hold of it, it will not keep them safe.
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
13People who turn away from God are like those plants. Their hope quickly disappears. 14They trust in useless things to help them. Those things are as weak as a spider's web. If they expect something like that to help them, it will fall down and leave them. If they take hold of it, it will not keep them safe. 16People who turn away from God are like weeds. When there is plenty of water and the sun shines on them, they grow all over the garden. 17Their roots grow around a heap of stones. They have a strong home among the rocks.
Read all of Job 8Job 8:15 word by word
יִשָּׁעֵ֣ן עַל־בֵּ֭יתוֹ וְלֹ֣א יַעֲמֹ֑ד יַחֲזִ֥יק בּ֝֗וֹ וְלֹ֣א יָקֽוּם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 8:15
- Job 18:14Then he has to leave his tent where he had lived safely. He will have to meet the terrible king of death.
- Job 27:18The houses that wicked people build are not strong. They are as weak as a spider's web, or a shepherd's hut,
- Psalms 52:5But God will knock you down, and he will break you into pieces. He will take you away from your home. He will remove you from this world where people live. Selah.
- Psalms 112:10When wicked people see this, they will be angry. They will show their teeth in anger, but then they will disappear. Whatever wicked people want, they will never get it.
- Proverbs 10:28What good people hope to receive causes them to be happy. But wicked people never receive what they hope for.
- Matthew 7:24Jesus then said, ‘Some people listen to my message and they obey it. Those people are like a wise man who built his house on rock.
- Luke 6:47Some people come to me. They listen to my message and they obey it. Let me tell you what those people are like. They are like a man who built a house.
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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