Job 8:14
Whose confidence is loathsome, || And the house of a spider his trust.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
In Context
13So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, || And the hope of the profane perishes,
15He leans on his house—and it does not stand, || He takes hold on it—and it does not abide.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:9-20
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 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:… Read the whole commentary →