Job 18:8
6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
- KJV
- For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
- WEB
- For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
- ASV
- For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
- DARBY
- For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
- BLB
- For he is cast into a net by his feet, and into a mesh he walks.
- ÅB
- for han kommer inn i et garn med sine føtter, og han vandrer på et nett.
- OTB
- Hans føtter fører ham inn i et nett,
og han går inn i dets masker. - B1930
- for han kommer inn i et garn med sine føtter, og han vandrer på et nett.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 9:15
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Read in contextPsalms 35:8
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
Read in contextJob 22:10
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Read in contextEsther 3:9
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.
Read in context1 Timothy 3:7
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Read in contextEsther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
Read in contextEsther 6:13
And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
Read in contextEzekiel 32:3
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
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