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Job 8:14
14They trust in useless things to help them. Those things are as weak as a spider's web.
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
12If the water is no longer there, they will quickly die. They will die before they are ready for people to cut them. They become useless more quickly than grass. 13People who turn away from God are like those plants. Their hope quickly disappears. They trust in useless things to help them. Those things are as weak as a spider's web. 15If they expect something like that to help them, it will fall down and leave them. If they take hold of it, it will not keep them safe. 16People who turn away from God are like weeds. When there is plenty of water and the sun shines on them, they grow all over the garden.
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אֲשֶׁר־יָק֥וֹט כִּסְל֑וֹ וּבֵ֥ית עַ֝כָּבִ֗ישׁ מִבְטַחֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 8:14
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
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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
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