Job 18:8
New International Version
His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.

New Living Translation
The wicked walk into a net. They fall into a pit.

English Standard Version
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.

Berean Standard Bible
For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

King James Bible
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

New King James Version
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walks into a snare.

New American Standard Bible
“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.

NASB 1995
“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.

NASB 1977
“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the webbing.

Legacy Standard Bible
For he is thrown into the net by his own feet, And he steps on the netting.

Amplified Bible
“For the wicked is thrown into a net by his own feet (wickedness), And he steps on the webbing [of the lattice-covered pit].

Christian Standard Bible
For his own feet lead him into a net, and he strays into its mesh.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For his own feet lead him into a net, and he strays into its mesh.

American Standard Version
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because he stretched his feet into a snare and he has walked upon a net

Brenton Septuagint Translation
His foot also has been caught in a snare, and let it be entangled in a net.

Contemporary English Version
Before they know it,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

English Revised Version
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon the toils.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
His own feet get him tangled in a net as he walks around on its webbing.

Good News Translation
They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;

International Standard Version
"For he has stumbled into a net with his own feet; he walked right into the network!

JPS Tanakh 1917
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

Literal Standard Version
For he is sent into a net by his own feet, | And he habitually walks on a snare.

Majority Standard Bible
For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

New American Bible
A net catches him by the feet, he wanders into a pitfall.

NET Bible
For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.

New Revised Standard Version
For they are thrust into a net by their own feet, and they walk into a pitfall.

New Heart English Bible
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

World English Bible
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

Young's Literal Translation
For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

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Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
7His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up. 8For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh. 9A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.…

Cross References
Job 5:5
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Job 18:9
A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

Job 19:6
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

Job 22:10
Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

Psalm 9:15
The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

Psalm 35:8
May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

Isaiah 24:17
Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.


Treasury of Scripture

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a snare.

he is cast

Job 22:10
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

Esther 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.

Esther 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.

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1. Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience
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(8) He is cast into a net.--Job had compared himself to one hunted by the Almighty (Job 10:16), and Bildad here describes the evil man as snared in a net, but it is one for which he has no one to thank but himself. It is his own pit he falls into; the insinuation being that Job is likewise responsible for his calamities, which are the punishment of his sin. It is to be observed that in this and the following verses the speaker heaps together every word he can find descriptive of the art of snaring.

Verse 8. - For he is cast into a net by his own feet. He walks of his own accord into a snare, not necessarily into one that he has himself set for others, as in Psalm 7:15; Psalm 9:15; Psalm 35:8; Psalm 57:6; and Proverbs 26:27; but either into one of his own setting, or into one laid for him by others (see ver. 10). And he walketh upon a snare. A mere repetition of the idea expressed in the preceding hemistich.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

his own feet
בְּרַגְלָ֑יו (bə·raḡ·lāw)
Preposition-b | Noun - fdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda

lead
שֻׁלַּ֣ח (šul·laḥ)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

him into a net,
בְּרֶ֣שֶׁת (bə·re·šeṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7568: A net

and he wanders
יִתְהַלָּֽךְ׃ (yiṯ·hal·lāḵ)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

into
וְעַל־ (wə·‘a·lś-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

its mesh.
שְׂ֝בָכָ֗ה (ḇā·ḵāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7639: A net-work, a snare, a ballustrade, a reticulated ornament to a, pillar


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