Job 8:15 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

If one leans on his house, it collapses. If one holds on to it, it will not support his weight.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

DBY:

He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

He leaneth on his house -- and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it -- and it abideth not.

Job 8:15 Cross References

XREF:

Job 8:22 "Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, And the tent of the wicked will be no longer."

Job 27:18 "He has built his house like the spider's web, Or as a hut which the watchman has made.

Psalm 49:11 Their inner thought is that their houses are forever And their dwelling places to all generations; They have called their lands after their own names. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

8:15 House - He shall trust to the multitude of his children and servants, and to his wealth, all which come under the name of a man's house in scripture. Hold it - To uphold himself by it. But his web, that refuge of lies, will be swept away, and he crushed in it.

MHC:

8:8-19 Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite's profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. The spider's web, spun with great skill, but easily swept away, represents a man's pretensions to religion when without the grace of God in his heart. A formal professor flatters himself in his own eyes, doubts not of his salvation, is secure, and cheats the world with his vain confidences. The flourishing of the tree, planted in the garden, striking root to the rock, yet after a time cut down and thrown aside, represents wicked men, when most firmly established, suddenly thrown down and forgotten. This doctrine of the vanity of a hypocrite's confidence, or the prosperity of a wicked man, is sound; but it was not applicable to the case of Job, if confined to the present world.

CONC:

Abideth Cling Clings Endure Family Fast Gives Hold Holds Hope Lay Lays Lean Leaneth Leans Nothing Puts Stand Standeth Support Taketh Thereby Trusts Web

Abideth Cling Clings Endure Family Fast Gives Hold Holds Hope House Lay Lean Puts Stand Standeth Support Thereby Trusts Way Web

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