Isaiah 59:6

"They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper."

Key Reflection

These verses metaphorically describe the harmful influence of evil counselors, whose plans are as deadly as the adder's venom or the spider’s web. Consuming their counsel leads to spiritual death, illustrating the lethal impact of wicked advice and false teachings.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Their webs shall not become garments -The spider’s web is unfit for clothing; and the idea here is, that their works are as unfit to secure salvation as the attenuated web of a spider is for raiment. The sense is, says Vitringa, that their artificial sophisms avail nothing in producing true wisdom, piety, virtue, and religion, or the true righteousness and salvation of people, but are airy speculations. The works of the self-righteous and the wicked; their vain formality, their false opinions, their subtle reasonings, and their traditions, are like the web of the spider. They bide nothing, they answer none of the purposes of a garment of salvation.

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