Verse 15

He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 27:18 : 18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.
  • Matt 7:24-27 : 24 Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock; 25 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock. 26 And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand; 27 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.
  • Luke 6:47-49 : 47 Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like: 48 He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good. 49 But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.
  • Job 18:14 : 14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
  • Ps 49:11 : 11 The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.
  • Ps 52:5-7 : 5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.) 6 The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you: 7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
  • Ps 112:10 : 10 The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
  • Prov 10:28 : 28 The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.