Job 8:15

World English Bible (2000)

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 27:18 : 18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.
  • Matt 7:24-27 : 24 "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. 25 The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. 27 The rain came down, 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 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like. 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. 49 But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
  • Job 18:14 : 14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
  • Ps 49:11 : 11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
  • Ps 52:5-7 : 5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. 6 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying, 7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."
  • Ps 112:10 : 10 The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.
  • Prov 10:28 : 28 The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 8:16-17
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    16 He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.

    17 His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

  • Job 8:14
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    14 Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

  • Job 15:28-33
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    28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

    29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

    31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

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

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

  • Job 18:14-17
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    14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.

    15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

    17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

  • Job 27:18-19
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    18 He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

    19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

  • Job 18:6-8
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    74%

    6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

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

    8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

  • Prov 11:28-29
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    73%

    28 He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

    29 He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

  • Job 41:9
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    9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • Ps 52:7
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    7 "Behold, this is the man who didn't 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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    27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

    28 The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • Jer 22:13-14
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    13 Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

    14 who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • Job 7:10
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    10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Job 8:12
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    12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

  • Job 14:7-8
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    7 "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

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

  • Job 20:19-20
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    19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

    20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

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

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

  • Job 18:19
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    19 He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

  • Job 14:2
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    2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6 For 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, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Job 12:14
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    14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • Zeph 1:13
    70%

    13 Their wealth will become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won't inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won't drink their wine.

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

  • Ps 10:6
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    6 He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble."

  • Eccl 10:18
    69%

    18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

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

  • Job 30:24
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    24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • Deut 28:30
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    30 You shall betroth 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 use its fruit.

  • Job 4:19
    69%

    19 How much more, 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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    9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

  • Job 18:12
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    12 His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.