Job 8:14

In 11 translations

BSB

His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.

KJV

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

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.

LSV

Whose confidence is loathsome, || And the house of a spider his trust.

YLT

Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder.

JPS

Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.

LXXE

For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.

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WLC

אֲשֶׁר־יָק֥וֹט כִּסְל֑וֹ וּבֵ֥ית עַ֝כָּבִ֗ישׁ מִבְטַחֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Ἀοίκητος γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἔσται ὁ οἶκος· ἀράχνη δὲ αὐτοῦ ἀποβήσεται ἡ σκηνή.

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• Isaiah 59:5–6They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched. Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their…

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