12 (A)While it is yet green and not cut down,
It withers before any other plant.
13 So are the paths of all who (B)forget God;
And the hope of the (C)hypocrite shall perish,
14 Whose confidence shall be cut off,
And whose trust is [a]a spider’s web.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:14 Lit. a spider’s house

12 While still growing and uncut,
    they wither more quickly than grass.(A)
13 Such is the destiny(B) of all who forget God;(C)
    so perishes the hope of the godless.(D)
14 What they trust in is fragile[a];
    what they rely on is a spider’s web.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:14 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.