Job 8:14

New Living Translation

Their confidence hangs by a thread. They are leaning on a spider's web.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
His source of confidence is fragile;what he trusts in is a spider’s web.

Hebrew Names Version
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

King James Version
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

English Standard Version
His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider's web.

New Century Version
What they hope in is easily broken; what they trust is like a spider's web.

New English Translation
whose trust is in something futile, whose security is a spider's web.

Amplified Bible
For his confidence is fragile and breaks, And his trust is [like] a spider's web.

New American Standard Bible
His confidence is fragile, And his trust is a spider's web.

World English Bible
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.

Geneva Bible (1587)
His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.

Legacy Standard Bible
Whose confidence is fragile,And whose trust a spider's web.

Berean Standard Bible
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider's web.

Contemporary English Version
and trust in something as frail as a spider's web—

Complete Jewish Bible
his confidence is mere gossamer, his trust a spider's web.

Darby Translation
Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.

Easy-to-Read Version
They have put their trust in something weak. It is like a spider's web.

George Lamsa Translation
Whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose house is a spiders web.

Good News Translation
They trust a thread—a spider's web.

Lexham English Bible
whose confidence is cut off and whose trust is a spider's house.

Literal Translation
whose hope is cut off, and his trust as a spider's house.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
His confidence shalbe destroyed, for he trusteth in a spyders webbe.

American Standard Version
Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web.

Bible in Basic English
Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.

King James Version (1611)
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
His confidence shalbe destroyed, and his trust shalbe a spiders webbe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider’s web.

English Revised Version
Whose confidence shall break in sunder, and whose trust is a spider's web.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
His cowardise schal not plese hym, and his trist schal be as a web of yreyns.

Update Bible Version
Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web.

Webster's Bible Translation
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider's web.

New King James Version
Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider's web.

New Life Bible
What he trusts in is easy to break, like the home of a spider.

New Revised Standard
Their confidence is gossamer, a spider's house their trust.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whose trust shall be contemptible, - and, a spider's web, his confidence:

Douay-Rheims Bible
His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider’s web.

Revised Standard Version
His confidence breaks in sunder, and his trust is a spider's web.

Young's Literal Translation
Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Whose confidence is fragile, And whose trust a spider's web.

Contextual Overview

⁸ "Just ask the previous generation. Pay attention to the experience of our ancestors. ⁹ For we were born but yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow. ¹⁰ But those who came before us will teach you. They will teach you the wisdom of old. ¹¹ "Can papyrus reeds grow tall without a marsh? Can marsh grass flourish without water? ¹² While they are still flowering, not ready to be cut, they begin to wither more quickly than grass. ¹³ The same happens to all who forget God. The hopes of the godless evaporate. ¹⁴ Their confidence hangs by a thread. They are leaning on a spider's web. ¹⁵ They cling to their home for security, but it won't last. They try to hold it tight, but it will not endure. ¹⁶ The godless seem like a lush plant growing in the sunshine, its branches spreading across the garden. ¹⁷ Its roots grow down through a pile of stones; it takes hold on a bed of rocks.

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

Genesis 7:11
When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.

Genesis 8:13
Noah was now 601 years old. On the first day of the new year, ten and a half months after the flood began, the floodwaters had almost dried up from the earth. Noah lifted back the covering of the boat and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

Genesis 8:14
Two more months went by, and at last the earth was 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 אשר יקוט כסלז "quem abominabitur spes ejus", Montanus; "fastidit", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "cum taedio rejectabit", Schultens. f "Quippe abominabitur spem suam", Schmidt. g בית עכביש "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, “thus shall his support rot away.” Noyes renders it, “whose expectation shall come to naught;” Gesenius, “shall be cut off.” Jerome, Non ei placebit vecordia sua. “his madness (do age, rage, or frenzy) shall not please him?” The Septuagint, “his house shall be uninhabitable, and his tent shall pass away as the spider.”

The Hebrew word translated “cut off” (יקט yāqôṭ) is from קוט kūṭ, usually meaning to loathe, to nauseate, to be offensive. Gesenius supposes that the word here is synonymous with the Arabic “to be cut off.” 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, “Whom his hope shall loathe or abominate, that is, who shall loathe or hate the thing that he hopes for.” I have no doubt that the meaning here is, to be loathsome, offensive, or nauseous, and the correct sense is, “whose hope shall rot.” 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 spider’s web - Margin, “house.” So the Hebrew בית bayı̂th. The spider’s 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.