¹⁵ He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

¹⁸ His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

²⁵ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.

²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;

²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

⁴⁷ Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

⁴⁸ He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

⁴⁹ But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.

¹⁴ He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

¹¹ The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

⁵ But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

⁶ The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

⁷ See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

¹⁰ The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

²⁸ The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.