Isaiah 59:6
New International Version
Their cobwebs are useless for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are evil deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.

New Living Translation
Their webs can’t be made into clothing, and nothing they do is productive. All their activity is filled with sin, and violence is their trademark.

English Standard Version
Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

Berean Standard Bible
Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.

King James Bible
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

New King James Version
Their webs will not become garments, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands.

New American Standard Bible
Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of wrongdoing, And an act of violence is in their hands.

NASB 1995
Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of violence is in their hands.

NASB 1977
Their webs will not become clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And an act of violence is in their hands.

Legacy Standard Bible
Their webs will not become a garment, Nor will they cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of wickedness, And a deed of violence is in their hands.

Amplified Bible
Their webs will not serve as clothing, Nor will they cover themselves with what they make; Their works are works of wickedness [of sin, of injustice, of wrongdoing], And the act of violence is in their hands.

Christian Standard Bible
Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works are sinful works, and violent acts are in their hands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works are sinful works, and violent acts are in their hands.

American Standard Version
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Their webs will not be for clothing and they will not be sheltered by their works. Their works are the works of fraud and the works of evil are in their hands

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

Contemporary English Version
but you can't make clothes with those webs or hide behind them. You're sinful and brutal.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.

English Revised Version
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Their webs can't be used for clothes, nor can they cover themselves with their works. Their works are evil. Their hands have committed acts of violence.

International Standard Version
Their cobwebs cannot become clothing, they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are deeds of iniquity, and acts of violence fill their hands.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Their webs shall not become garments, Neither shall men cover themselves with their works; Their works are works of iniquity, And the act of violence is in their hands.

Literal Standard Version
Their webs do not become a garment, | Nor do they cover themselves with their works, | Their works [are] works of iniquity, | And a deed of violence [is] in their hands.

Majority Standard Bible
Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.

New American Bible
Their webs cannot serve as clothing, nor can they cover themselves with their works. Their works are evil works, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

NET Bible
Their webs cannot be used for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are sinful; they commit violent crimes.

New Revised Standard Version
Their webs cannot serve as clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.

New Heart English Bible
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Webster's Bible Translation
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

World English Bible
Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

Young's Literal Translation
Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works are works of iniquity, And a deed of violence is in their hands.

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Context
Sin Separates Us from God
5They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched. 6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands. 7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.…

Cross References
Job 8:14
His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider's web.

Job 16:17
yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

Isaiah 28:20
Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.

Isaiah 57:12
I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

Isaiah 58:4
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

Jeremiah 6:7
As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

Ezekiel 7:11
Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.


Treasury of Scripture

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

webs

Isaiah 28:18-20
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it…

Isaiah 30:12-14
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: …

Job 8:14,15
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web…

neither

Isaiah 30:1
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

Isaiah 57:12
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

their works

Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

Genesis 6:11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Psalm 58:2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

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(6) Their webs shall not become garments.--See the same figure in Isaiah 30:1. The point of the comparison lies chiefly in the uselessness of the spider's webs, but the second clause emphasises also the fact that the only purpose which the webs serve is one of mischief. They may catch flies, they cannot clothe men.

Verse 6. - Their webs shall not become garments. The unsubstantial fabrics which they weave shall not serve them in any way as garments, or be of any real value or utility. Their devices shall not take objective shape in such sort as to afford them "cover" or protection. Their works are works of iniquity; rather, works of nothingness, works that make a mere pretence of being works at all, and are in reality mere shams, impotent and delusive. And the act of violence is in their hands; rather, and it is an act of violence that is in their hands. Violence creates nothing. At the best, it destroys.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Their cobwebs
קֽוּרֵיהֶם֙ (qū·rê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6980: Trenches, a web

cannot
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

be made into
יִהְי֣וּ (yih·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

clothing,
לְבֶ֔גֶד (lə·ḇe·ḡeḏ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage

and they cannot
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

cover themselves
יִתְכַּסּ֖וּ (yiṯ·kas·sū)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

with their works.
בְּמַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם (bə·ma·‘ă·śê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

Their deeds
מַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙ (ma·‘ă·śê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

are sinful
אָ֔וֶן (’ā·wen)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 205: Strictly nothingness, trouble, vanity, wickedness, an idol

deeds,
מַֽעֲשֵׂי־ (ma·‘ă·śê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

and acts
וּפֹ֥עַל (ū·p̄ō·‘al)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6467: Doing, deed, work

of violence
חָמָ֖ס (ḥā·mās)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain

are in their hands.
בְּכַפֵּיהֶֽם׃ (bə·ḵap·pê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - fdc | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan


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