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Job 8:14-16
1599 Geneva Bible

14 His confidence also shall be cut off, and his trust shall be as the house of a [a]spider.

15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold him fast by it, yet shall it not endure.

16 The [b]tree is green before the Sun, and the branches spread over the garden thereof.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:14 Which is today, and tomorrow swept away.
  2. Job 8:16 He compareth the just to a tree, which although it be removed out of one place unto another, yet flourisheth: so the affliction of the godly turneth to their profit.
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Job 8:14-16
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14 What they trust in is fragile[a];
    what they rely on is a spider’s web.(A)
15 They lean on the web,(B) but it gives way;
    they cling to it, but it does not hold.(C)
16 They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,
    spreading its shoots(D) over the garden;(E)

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