Job 8:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

Job 27:18

He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

Job 8:22

They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

Psalm 112:10

The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 49:11

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, And their dwelling places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.

Proverbs 10:28

The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: But the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: But the tent of the upright shall flourish.

Amos 6:13

ye which rejoice in a thing of nought, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

Zechariah 5:4

I will cause it to go forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.