Job 8 · Verse 14

Job 8:14

Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

Job 8:14, King James Version

Job 8:14 in other translations

BSB	His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
WEB	whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
ASV	Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider’s web.
YLT	Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
DARBY	Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.
BBE	Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.
Webster	Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

What does Job 8:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. 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).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 8:8-19

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…

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Job 8:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-[the one] whoH834

יָק֥וֹטya.Kotit snapsH6990

כִּסְל֑וֹkis.Loconfidence hisH3689

וּבֵ֥יתu.Veitand [is the] house ofH1004

עַ֝כָּבִ֗ישׁ'a.ka.Visha spiderH5908

מִבְטַחֽוֹ\׃miv.ta.Chotrust hisH4009

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 8:14

Isaiah 59:5-6
They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

web. Heb. house.
Isa 59:5,6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
Job 8:14
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
Job 8:15
He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

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Job 8:14 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Porque su esperanza será cortada, y su confianza es casa de araña.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Son assurance sera retranchée, et sa confiance sera une toile d’araignée:
German Elberfelder 1871	Sein Vertrauen wird abgeschnitten und seine Zuversicht ist ein Spinnengewebe.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Non ei placebit vecordia sua, et sicut tela aranearum fiducia ejus.