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Selected Verse: Job 8:14 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 8:14 |
Strong Concordance |
Whose hope [03689] shall be cut off [06990], and whose trust [04009] shall be a spider's [05908] web [01004]. |
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King James |
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| 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" (Isa 59:5-6). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Whose hope shall be cut off - Schultens supposes that the quotation from the ancients closes with Job 8:13, and that these are the comments of Bildad on the passage to which he had referred. Rosenmuller and Noyes continue the quotation to the close of Job 8:19; Dr. Good closes it at Job 8:13. It seems to me that it is extended further than Job 8:13, and probably it is to be regarded as continued to the close of Job 8:18. The beginning of this verse has been very variously rendered. Dr. Good says that it has never been understood, and proposes to translate it, "thus shall his support rot away." Noyes renders it, "whose expectation shall come to naught;" Gesenius, "shall be cut off." Jerome, Non ei placebit vecordia sua. "his madness (do age, rage, or frenzy) shall not please him?" The Septuagint, "his house shall be uninhabitable, and his tent shall pass away as the spider."
The Hebrew word translated "cut off" (יקט yāqôṭ) is from קוט kūṭ, usually meaning to loathe, to nauseate, to be offensive. Gesenius supposes that the word here is synonymous with the Arabic "to be cut off." But this sense does not occur elsewhere in the Hebrew, and it is doubtful whether this is the true sense of the phrase. In the Hebrew word there is probably always the idea of loathing, of being offensive, irksome, or disgusting; see Psa 95:10, I was grieved; Job 10:1, is weary; Eze 6:9, shall loathe; so Eze 20:43; Eze 36:31; Eze 16:47, a tiresome, or disgusting object. Taylor (Concord) renders it here, "Whom his hope shall loathe or abominate, that is, who shall loathe or hate the thing that he hopes for." I have no doubt that the meaning here is, to be loathsome, offensive, or nauseous, and the correct sense is, "whose hope shall rot." The figure is continued from the image of the paper-reed and the flag, which soon decay; and the idea is, that as such weeds grow offensive and putrid in the stagnant water, so shall it be with the hope of the hypocrite.
And whose trust - Whose confidence, or expectation.
A spider's web - Margin, "house." So the Hebrew בית bayı̂th. The spider's house is the web which it forms, a frail, light, tenuous substance which will sustain almost nothing. The wind shakes it, and it is easily brushed away. So it will be with the hope of the hypocrite. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
trust
(See Scofield) - (Psa 2:12). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Hope - Whose wealth and outward glory, the matter of his hope, and trust, shall be cut off suddenly and violently taken away from him. Web - Which tho' it be formed with great art and industry, is easily swept down, or pulled in pieces. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
5 They hatch [01234] cockatrice [06848]' eggs [01000], and weave [0707] the spider's [05908] web [06980]: he that eateth [0398] of their eggs [01000] dieth [04191], and that which is crushed [02116] breaketh out [01234] into a viper [0660].
6 Their webs [06980] shall not become garments [0899], neither shall they cover [03680] themselves with their works [04639]: their works [04639] are works [04639] of iniquity [0205], and the act [06467] of violence [02555] is in their hands [03709].
47 Yet hast thou not walked [01980] after their ways [01870], nor done [06213] after their abominations [08441]: but, as if that were a very [06985] little [04592] [06962] thing, thou wast corrupted [07843] more than they [02004] in all thy ways [01870].
31 Then shall ye remember [02142] your own evil [07451] ways [01870], and your doings [04611] that were not good [02896], and shall lothe [06962] yourselves in your own sight [06440] for your iniquities [05771] and for your abominations [08441].
43 And there shall ye remember [02142] your ways [01870], and all your doings [05949], wherein ye have been defiled [02930]; and ye shall lothe [06962] yourselves in your own sight [06440] for all your evils [07451] that ye have committed [06213].
9 And they that escape [06412] of you shall remember [02142] me among the nations [01471] whither they shall be carried captives [07617], because I am broken [07665] with their whorish [02181] heart [03820], which hath departed [05493] from me, and with their eyes [05869], which go a whoring [02181] after [0310] their idols [01544]: and they shall lothe [06962] themselves [06440] for the evils [07451] which they have committed [06213] in all their abominations [08441].
1 My soul [05315] is weary [05354] of my life [02416]; I will leave [05800] my complaint [07879] upon myself; I will speak [01696] in the bitterness [04751] of my soul [05315].
10 Forty [0705] years [08141] long was I grieved [06962] with this generation [01755], and said [0559], It is a people [05971] that do err [08582] in their heart [03824], and they have not known [03045] my ways [01870]:
18 If he destroy [01104] him from his place [04725], then it shall deny [03584] him, saying, I have not seen [07200] thee.
13 So are the paths [0734] of all that forget [07911] God [0410]; and the hypocrite's [02611] hope [08615] shall perish [06]:
13 So are the paths [0734] of all that forget [07911] God [0410]; and the hypocrite's [02611] hope [08615] shall perish [06]:
19 Behold, this is the joy [04885] of his way [01870], and out of the earth [06083] shall others [0312] grow [06779].
13 So are the paths [0734] of all that forget [07911] God [0410]; and the hypocrite's [02611] hope [08615] shall perish [06]:
12 Kiss [05401] the Son [01248], lest he be angry [0599], and ye perish [06] from the way [01870], when his wrath [0639] is kindled [01197] but a little [04592]. Blessed [0835] are all they that put their trust [02620] in him.