Job 8:14

Job 8:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
• New International Version (NIV)What they trust in is fragile; what they rely on is a spider’s web.
• English Standard Version (ESV)His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider's web.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider’s web.

Context of Job 8:14

12While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water]. 13So are the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the godless will perish, For his confidence is fragile and breaks, And his trust is [like] a spider’s web. 15He trusts in his house, but it does not stand; He holds tightly to it, but it does not endure. 16He thrives and prospers [like a green plant] before the sun, And his branches spread out over his garden.

Job 8:14 word by word

אֲשֶׁר־יָק֥וֹט כִּסְל֑וֹ וּבֵ֥ית עַ֝כָּבִ֗ישׁ מִבְטַחֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Whose hopeכֶּ֫סֶלkesel · loinH3689
• shall be cut offקוֹטqâţaţ · to cut offH6990
• and whose trustמִבְטָחmibţâch · confidenceH4009
• a spider’sעַכָּבִישׁ‛akkâbîysh · spiderH5908
• webבַּ֫יִתbayith · house: homeH1004

Cross-references for Job 8:14

• Isaiah 59:5They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s webs; He who eats of their eggs dies, And from an egg which is crushed a viper breaks out.

Commentaries on Job 8:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Whose 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Whose 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…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-19Verses 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…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. cut off--so Gesenius; or, to accord with the metaphor of the spider's "house," "The confidence (on which he builds) shall be laid in ruins" (Is 59:5, 6).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 8:14

• Hypocrisy
• Spider
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Endure
• Former
• Hope
• Hypocrite
• Spider
• Yesterday
• Bildad
• Confidence
• Job, Book of

Commentaries on Job 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings