Job 18:9
Good News Translation
a trap catches their heels and holds them.

New Revised Standard Version
A trap seizes them by the heel; a snare lays hold of them.

Contemporary English Version
they are trapped in a net,

New American Bible
A trap seizes him by the heel, a snare lays hold of him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.

The gin

Isaiah 8:14,15 And he shall be a sanctification to you. But for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of offence to the two houses of Israel, for a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. . . .

robber

Job 1:15,17 And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. . . .

Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
8For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes. 9The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.10A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.…
Cross References
Job 18:8
For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

Job 18:10
A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.

Psalm 140:5
The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Job 18:8
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