A moment in scripture
Job 8:15
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He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
- Job 8:14
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
- Job 8:16
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
- Job 8:17
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.