Job 8:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ If one leans against its house, it will not stand; if one lays hold of it, it will not endure.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast to it, but it shall not last.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ He leans on its web, and it doesn’t stand; grasps it, and it can’t remain in place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ He will lean on his house, and it will not stand; he will prop it up, but it will not rise.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand. He shall prop it up, and it shall not rise.

Job 8:15 Cross References

Job 18:14

They are torn from the tent in which they trusted and are brought to the king of terrors.

Job 27:18

They build their houses like nests, like booths made by sentinels of the vineyard.

Job 8:22

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

Psalm 112:10

The wicked see it and are angry; they gnash their teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked comes to nothing.

Psalm 49:11

Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they named lands their own.

Proverbs 10:28

The hope of the righteous ends in gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked is destroyed, but the tent of the upright flourishes.

Amos 6:13

you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim for ourselves?”

Zechariah 5:4

I have sent it out, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name, and it shall abide in that house and consume it, both timber and stones.”