Job 8:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.”
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“He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“He leaneth on his house--and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it--and it abideth not.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 8:15 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 18:14He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
- Job 27:18The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
- Psalms 49:11Their graves are their eternal homes— their dwellings for endless generations— even though their lands were their namesakes.
- Psalms 52:5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- Psalms 112:10The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
- Proverbs 10:28The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.
- Proverbs 14:11The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
- Zechariah 5:4I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”
- Matthew 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Luke 6:47I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:
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