Job 8:14
12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.
16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
- KJV
- Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
- WEB
- whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
- ASV
- Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider`s web.
- DARBY
- Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
- BLB
- for whom his confidence shall be cut off, and his trust the house of a spider.
- ÅB
- hans tillit avskjæres, og det han trøster seg til, er spindelvev.
- OTB
- Deres tillit er skjør,
og deres tro er som et edderkoppnett. - B1930
- hans tillit avskjæres, og det han trøster sig til, er spindelvev.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 59:5–6
They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
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