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Job 8:15
15He leans against his house but it does not stand, He holds fast to it, but it does not hold up.
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
13Such are the ways of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes— 14whose confidence is snapped off, his trust is a spider’s web. He leans against his house but it does not stand, He holds fast to it, but it does not hold up. 16He is a well-watered plant in the sun, spreading his shoots over his garden; 17he entwines his roots around a heap of stones, and looks for a place between 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 18:14He is torn from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.
- Job 27:18The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut made for a watchman.
- Psalms 52:5You love evil instead of good, lying rather than speaking right. Selah
- Psalms 112:10The wicked will see it and be indignant. He will gnash with his teeth and waste away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
- Proverbs 10:28The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked perishes.
- Matthew 7:24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Luke 6:47Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and does them, I will show you what 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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