Job 8:15

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He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 27:18 : 18 The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.
  • Matt 7:24-27 : 24 Hearing and Doing“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock. 25 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation had been laid on rock. 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”
  • Luke 6:47-49 : 47 “Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice– I will show you what he is like: 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built. 49 But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!”
  • Job 18:14 : 14 He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.
  • Ps 49:11 : 11 Their grave becomes their permanent residence, their eternal dwelling place. They name their lands after themselves,
  • Ps 52:5-7 : 5 Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah) 6 When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe, and will mock the evildoer, saying: 7 “Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”
  • Ps 112:10 : 10 When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.
  • Prov 10:28 : 28 The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectation of the wicked perishes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 8:16-17
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    16He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

    17It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

  • Job 8:14
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    14whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider’s web.

  • Job 15:28-33
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    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

    31Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.

    32Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

    33Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

  • Job 18:14-17
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    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

    15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

  • Job 27:18-19
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    18The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

    19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

  • Job 18:6-8
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    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

    7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

    8For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.

  • Prov 11:28-29
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    28The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

    29The one who troubles his family will inherit nothing, and the fool will be a servant to the wise person.

  • Job 41:9
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    9(41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.

  • Ps 52:7
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    7“Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”

  • Job 20:27-28
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    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

    28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.

    14He says,“I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red.

  • Job 7:10
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    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Job 8:12
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    12While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

  • Job 14:7-8
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    7The Inevitability of Death“But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

    8Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

  • Job 20:19-20
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    19For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.

    20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

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

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

  • Job 18:19
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    19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • Job 12:14
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    14If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.

  • Dan 11:19
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    19He will then turn his attention to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall, not to be found again.

  • Ps 10:6
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    6He says to himself,“I will never be shaken, because I experience no calamity.”

  • Eccl 10:18
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    18Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.

  • Prov 12:7
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    7The wicked are overthrown and perish, but the righteous household will stand.

  • Job 30:24
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    24The Contrast With the Past“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

  • Job 4:19
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    19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

  • Hab 2:9
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    9The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.

  • Job 18:12
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    12Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.