Job 8:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 8:16-17
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    16 He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

    17 His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

  • Job 8:14
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    14 Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

  • Job 15:28-33
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    28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

    29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

    30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

    31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

    32 His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.

    33 He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

  • Job 18:14-17
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    76%

    14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

    15 In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

    16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

    17 His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

  • Job 27:18-19
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    18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

    19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

  • Job 18:6-8
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    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

    7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

    8 His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

  • Prov 11:28-29
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    73%

    28 He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

    29 The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

  • Job 41:9
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    9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

  • Ps 52:7
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    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.

  • Job 20:27-28
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    27 The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

    28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13 A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

    14 Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

  • Job 7:10
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    10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Job 8:12
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    12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • Job 14:7-8
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    7 For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.

    8 Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

  • Job 20:19-20
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    19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

    20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

  • Prov 14:11
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    11 The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

  • Job 18:19
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    19 He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

  • Job 14:2
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    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

  • Job 12:14
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    14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Dan 11:19
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    19 Then his face will be turned to the strong places of his land: but his way will be stopped, causing his downfall, and he will not be seen again.

  • Ps 10:6
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    6 He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18 When no work is done the roof goes in, and when the hands do nothing water comes into the house.

  • Prov 12:7
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    7 Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.

  • Job 30:24
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    24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • Deut 28:30
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    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Job 4:19
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    19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

  • Hab 2:9
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    9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

  • Job 18:12
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    12 His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.