Job 8:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

i.e. Whose wealth and outward glory, which is the matter of his hope and trust, shall be cut off, i.e. suddenly and violently taken away from him. Whose hope shall be irksome or tedious to him, by the succession of earnest expectation and great disappointment. A spider's web; which though it be formed with great art and industry, and may do much mischief to others, yet is most slender and feeble, and easily swept down or pulled in pieces, and unable to defend the spider that made it. The application is obvious.

Job 8:14

14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.c