They lean on the spider’s web, but it breaks. They grab it, but it does not hold up.
They are torn from the safety of their tents and dragged off to Death, the King of Terrors.
The houses the wicked build are like a spider’s web, like a hut that a guard builds.
Your enemies will be covered with shame, and the tents of the wicked will be gone.”
The wicked will see this and become angry; they will grind their teeth in anger and then disappear. The wishes of the wicked will come to nothing.
Their graves will always be their homes. They will live there from now on, even though they named places after themselves.
A good person can look forward to happiness, but an evil person can expect nothing.
The wicked person’s house will be destroyed, but a good person’s tent will still be standing.
You are happy that the town of Lo Debar was captured, and you say, “We have taken Karnaim by our own strength.”
The Lord All-Powerful says, ‘I will send it to the houses of thieves and to those who use my name to make false promises. The scroll will stay in that person’s house and destroy it with its wood and stones.’ ”