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12 While it is in its flower and is not plucked,
yet[a] it withers before[b] all grass.
13 So are the paths of all who forget God;
and the hope of the godless will perish,
14 whose confidence is cut off
and whose trust[c] is a spider’s house.

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  1. Job 8:12 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 8:12 Literally “to the faces of”
  3. Job 8:14 Literally “his trust”

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.