Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider’s web.
Parallel translations
- WEB Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.
- KJV Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
- BSB His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
- NASB His confidence is fragile, And his trust is a spider’s web.
- NLT Their confidence hangs by a thread. They are leaning on a spider’s web.
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Quick answer
Bildad says the godless man's confidence is fragile, his trust as flimsy as a spider's web. Such false security cannot hold.
Overview
The spider's web vividly pictures misplaced trust: delicate, easily swept away, unable to bear weight. Bildad argues that those who rely on anything other than God build on nothing. The image rightly warns against false security, while the book insists Job's trust, though tested, is not such a fragile thing.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 1
- Isa 59:5–6They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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