Job 8:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

Job 8:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-19)

Bildad here discourses very well on the sad catastrophe of hypocrites and evil-doers and the fatal period of all their hopes and joys. He will not be so bold as to say with Eliphaz that none that were righteous were ever cut off thus (Job 4:7); yet he takes it for granted that God, in the course of his providence, does ordinarily bring wicked men, who seemed pious and were prosperous, to shame and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

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).