KJV King James Version
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider’s web.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 8:14
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust [shall be] a spider’s web.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
WEB World English Bible
Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.
ASV American Standard Version
Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider’s web.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
Surrounding context — Job 8
11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
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:
14 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.
17 His roots are wrapped about the heap, [and] seeth the place of stones.
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