Job 8:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

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  • Isa 59:5-6 : 5 They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake. 6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

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  • Job 8:12-13
    2 verses
    82%

    12 When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

    13 So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:

  • 15 He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.

  • 14 He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

  • 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

  • 9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

  • 8 For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

  • 20 But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.

  • 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

  • 7 At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.

  • Job 18:6-10
    5 verses
    71%

    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

    7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

    8 His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

    9 His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

    10 The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

  • 28 The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.

  • Jer 17:5-7
    3 verses
    70%

    5 This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.

    6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

    7 A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

  • 18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

  • 19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

  • 31 Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

  • 16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

  • Isa 59:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.

    6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

  • 6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

  • 7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

  • 18 For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

  • 28 You may take the lizard in your hands, but it is in kings' houses.

  • 10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

  • 7 For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.

  • 7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

  • 5 Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

  • 8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • 17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

  • 28 He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

  • 10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • 23 He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

  • 26 For the Lord will be your hope, and will keep your foot from being taken in the net.

  • 8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

  • Job 14:18-19
    2 verses
    67%

    18 But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

    19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

  • 25 The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.

  • 15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

  • 18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.

  • 15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

  • 5 In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

  • 19 Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.

  • 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

  • 20 The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.