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12 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.

13 Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

14 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.

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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.