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13 People who turn away from God are like those plants.
    Their hope quickly disappears.
14 They trust in useless things to help them.
    Those things are as weak as a spider's web.[a]
15 If they expect something like that to help them,
    it will fall down and leave them.
If they take hold of it,
    it will not keep them safe.

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  1. 8:14 A spider is an insect that uses very thin strings (threads) to make a web. It catches insects in the web for its food.

13 Such is the destiny(A) of all who forget God;(B)
    so perishes the hope of the godless.(C)
14 What they trust in is fragile[a];
    what they rely on is a spider’s web.(D)
15 They lean on the web,(E) but it gives way;
    they cling to it, but it does not hold.(F)

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