Holy Scripture
Job 8:14
A church father on this verse
“His own folly shall not satisfy him, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. For it is infinite folly to labour painfully, and pant after the breath of applause, to apply one's self to the heavenly precepts with hard toil, but to aim at the reward of an earthly kind of recompense. For that I may so express myself, he…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
14For his house shall be without inhabitants, And his tent shall prove a spider’s web.
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12When it is yet on the root, and though it has not been cut down, Does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?
13Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: For the hope of the ungodly shall perish.
— Job 8:14 —
15If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: And when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.
16For it is moist under the sun, And his branch shall come forth out of his dungheap.