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14 Their confidence hangs by a thread.
    They are leaning on a spider’s web.

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14 What they trust in is fragile[a];
    what they rely on is a spider’s web.(A)

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Footnotes

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

They hatch deadly snakes
    and weave spiders’ webs.
Whoever eats their eggs will die;
    whoever cracks them will hatch a viper.

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They hatch the eggs of vipers(A)
    and spin a spider’s web.(B)
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
    and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.

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