Job 8:14
Good News Translation
They trust a thread--a spider's web.

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

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

New American Bible
His confidence is but a gossamer thread, his trust is a spider’s house.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.

web.

Isaiah 59:5,6 They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk. . . .

Context
Bildad: Job Should Repent
13Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish: 14His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.15He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:…
Cross References
Proverbs 11:7
The just is delivered out of distress: and the wicked shall be given up for him.

Isaiah 59:5
They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk.

Isaiah 59:6
Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.

Amos 6:13
Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with buffles? for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice into wormwood.

Job 8:13
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