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Job 8:14
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His source of confidence is fragile;what he trusts in is a spider’s web.
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.
His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider's web.
What they hope in is easily broken; what they trust is like a spider's web.
whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider's web.
For his confidence is fragile and breaks, And his trust is [like] a spider's web.
His confidence is fragile, And his trust is a spider's web.
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.
Whose confidence is fragile,And whose trust a spider's web.
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider's web.
and trust in something as frail as a spider's web—
his confidence is mere gossamer, his trust a spider's web.
Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
They have put their trust in something weak. It is like a spider's web.
Whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose house is a spiders web.
They trust a thread—a spider's web.
whose confidence is cut off and whose trust is a spider's house.
whose hope is cut off, and his trust as a spider's house.
His confidence shalbe destroyed, for he trusteth in a spyders webbe.
Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.
His confidence shalbe destroyed, and his trust shalbe a spiders webbe.
For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider’s web.
Whose confidence shall break in sunder, and whose trust is a spider's web.
His cowardise schal not plese hym, and his trist schal be as a web of yreyns.
Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web.
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.
Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider's web.
Their confidence hangs by a thread. They are leaning on a spider's web.
What he trusts in is easy to break, like the home of a spider.
Their confidence is gossamer, a spider's house their trust.
Whose trust shall be contemptible, - and, a spider's web, his confidence:
His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.
His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web.
Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
Whose confidence is fragile, And whose trust a spider's web.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
web: Heb. house, Isaiah 59:5, Isaiah 59:6
Reciprocal: Job 11:20 - their hope Job 18:14 - confidence Job 27:18 - as a moth Proverbs 11:7 - General Matthew 25:8 - for
Cross-References
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dried.
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Whose hope shall be cut off,.... The same thing as before, expressed in different words, and repeated for the certainty of it; signifying that it should be of no manner of use, should be wholly lost, and issue in black despair: the word has the signification of loathing, and is differently rendered, either, "whom his hope shall loathe" e or, "who shall loathe his hope" f; he shall fret and tease, and vex himself that he should be such a fool to entertain such a vain hope, or to place hope and confidence in such vain things, finding himself most sadly disappointed:
and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web; or "a spider's house" g; and such its web is to it; having made it, it encloses itself in it, and dwells securely: very fitly is the hope and confidence of an hypocrite compared to a spider's web, which is a very nice and curious piece of workmanship, as are the outward works of righteousness, done by hypocrites they are wrought out and set off to the best advantage, to be seen of men; yet very slight and thin, and will bear no weight; such are the best works of carnal professors; they make a fine appearance, but have no substance, do not flow from principles of grace, nor are done in the strength of Christ, or to the glory of God; are but "splendida peccata", as one calls them, and fall infinitely short of bearing the weight of the salvation of the soul: as the spider's web is spun out of its own bowels, so the works of such persons are wholly of themselves; they are their own, done without the grace of God and spirit of Christ; and such webs are not fit for garments, are too thin to cover naked souls; insufficient to shelter from divine wrath and vengeance; cannot bear the besom of justice, one stroke of which will sweep them all away; and though they may think themselves safe enclosed in them as in a house, they will find themselves in the issue wretchedly mistaken; for there is no shelter, safety, and security, in such cobwebs; there is none but in Christ and his righteousness.
e ×שר ×ק×× ×ס×× "quem abominabitur spes ejus", Montanus; "fastidit", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "cum taedio rejectabit", Schultens. f "Quippe abominabitur spem suam", Schmidt. g ××ת ×¢×××ש "domus araneae, vel aranei"; Pagninus, Montanus, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Whose hope shall be cut off - Schultens supposes that the quotation from the ancients closes with Job 8:13, and that these are the comments of Bildad on the passage to which he had referred. Rosenmuller and Noyes continue the quotation to the close of Job 8:19; Dr. Good closes it at Job 8:13. It seems to me that it is extended further than Job 8:13, and probably it is to be regarded as continued to the close of Job 8:18. The beginning of this verse has been very variously rendered. Dr. Good says that it has never been understood, and proposes to translate it, âthus shall his support rot away.â Noyes renders it, âwhose expectation shall come to naught;â Gesenius, âshall be cut off.â Jerome, Non ei placebit vecordia sua. âhis madness (do age, rage, or frenzy) shall not please him?â The Septuagint, âhis house shall be uninhabitable, and his tent shall pass away as the spider.â
The Hebrew word translated âcut offâ (××§× yaÌqoÌtÌ£) is from ק×× kuÌtÌ£, usually meaning to loathe, to nauseate, to be offensive. Gesenius supposes that the word here is synonymous with the Arabic âto be cut off.â But this sense does not occur elsewhere in the Hebrew, and it is doubtful whether this is the true sense of the phrase. In the Hebrew word there is probably always the idea of loathing, of being offensive, irksome, or disgusting; see Psalms 95:10, I was grieved; Job 10:1, is weary; Ezekiel 6:9, shall loathe; so Ezekiel 20:43; Ezekiel 36:31; Ezekiel 16:47, a tiresome, or disgusting object. Taylor (Concord) renders it here, âWhom his hope shall loathe or abominate, that is, who shall loathe or hate the thing that he hopes for.â I have no doubt that the meaning here is, to be loathsome, offensive, or nauseous, and the correct sense is, âwhose hope shall rot.â The figure is continued from the image of the paper-reed and the flag, which soon decay; and the idea is, that as such weeds grow offensive and putrid in the stagnant water, so shall it be with the hope of the hypocrite.
And whose trust - Whose confidence, or expectation.
A spiderâs web - Margin, âhouse.â So the Hebrew ××ת bayıÌth. The spiderâs house is the web which it forms, a frail, light, tenuous substance which will sustain almost nothing. The wind shakes it, and it is easily brushed away. So it will be with the hope of the hypocrite.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 8:14. Whose hope shall be cut off — Such persons, subdued by the strong habits of sin, hope on fruitlessly, till the last thread of the web of life is cut off from the beam; and then they find no more strength in their hope than is in the threads of the spider's web.
Mr. Good renders, Thus shall their support rot away. The foundation on which they trust is rotten, and by and by the whole superstructure of their confidence shall tumble into ruin.
