Job 8:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

He shall lean on his house, but it will not stand; he shall hold it fast, but it will not endure.

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  • Job 27:18 : 18 He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.
  • Matt 7:24-27 : 24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26 And everyone who hears these sayings of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.
  • Luke 6:47-49 : 47 Whoever comes to me, and hears my sayings, and does them, I will show you to whom he is like: 48 He is like a man who built a house, and dug deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 49 But he that hears, and does not, is like a man who without a foundation built a house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
  • Job 18:14 : 14 His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
  • Ps 49:11 : 11 Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
  • Ps 52:5-7 : 5 God shall likewise destroy you forever, He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. 6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him: 7 Look, this is the man that did not make God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
  • Ps 112:10 : 10 The wicked shall see it and be grieved; he shall gnash his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.
  • Prov 10:28 : 28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

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  • Job 8:16-17
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    16He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

    17His roots are wrapped around the heap, and sees the place of stones.

  • Job 8:14
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    14Whose hope will be cut off, and whose trust is a spider's web.

  • Job 15:28-33
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    28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

    29He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth continue, nor shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall go away.

    31Let not him who is deceived trust in vanity, for emptiness shall be his recompense.

    32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

    33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and cast off his flower as the olive.

  • Job 18:14-17
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    14His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

    15It shall dwell in his tent, because it is no longer his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

    16His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off.

    17His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

  • Job 27:18-19
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    18He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that a keeper makes.

    19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

  • Job 18:6-8
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    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

  • Prov 11:28-29
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    28He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish like a branch.

    29He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Job 41:9
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    9Behold, the hope of capturing him is vain; will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • Ps 52:7
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    7Look, this is the man that did not make God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

  • Job 20:27-28
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    27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.

    28The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of God's wrath.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore his calamity shall come suddenly; suddenly he shall be broken without remedy.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and gives him nothing for his work;

    14Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • Job 7:10
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    10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

  • Job 8:12
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    12While it is still green and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

  • Job 14:7-8
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    7For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.

    8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;

  • Job 20:19-20
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    19Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house he did not build;

    20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save anything of what he desired.

  • Prov 14:11
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    11The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

  • Job 18:19
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    19He shall neither have son nor descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Job 12:14
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    14Behold, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt: He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not see when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the year of drought, nor cease from yielding fruit.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Therefore their goods shall become plunder, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine from them.

  • Dan 11:19
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    19Then he shall turn his face toward the fortress of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.

  • Ps 10:6
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    6He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved; for I shall never be in adversity.

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18By much slothfulness the building decays; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 12:7
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    7The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

  • Job 30:24
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    24However, He will not stretch out His hand to the grave, though they cry out in their destruction.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Job 4:19
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    19How much less in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

  • Hab 2:9
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    9Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

  • Job 18:12
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    12His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and destruction shall be ready at his side.