EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 18:8
8He does not know where he is going and he walks into a dangerous trap.
Job 18:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
- New International Version (NIV)His feet thrust him into a net; he wanders into its mesh.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walks into a snare.
Context of Job 18:8
6His tent will be dark. The lamp that gives him light will stop burning. 7Once he was strong but now his legs are weak. His own ideas cause him to fall down. He does not know where he is going and he walks into a dangerous trap. 9A trap catches his foot and he cannot move. 10Someone has hidden a rope on the ground. It catches him as he walks along.
Read all of Job 18Job 18:8 word by word
כִּֽי־שֻׁלַּ֣ח בְּרֶ֣שֶׁת בְּרַגְלָ֑יו וְעַל־שְׂ֝בָכָ֗ה יִתְהַלָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 18:8
- Job 22:10That is why you have so many troubles. That is why you shake with fear.
- Esther 3:9If you agree, we should send out a command to destroy them. Then I will give 350 tons of silver to the king, so that your officers can do this work.’
- Esther 6:13He told his wife, Zeresh, and his friends about everything that had happened to him. Then his advisors, as well as his wife, said to him, ‘It seems that you have already lost some of your power to Mordecai. If he really is Jewish, you will never win against him. He will destroy you completely.’
- Esther 7:5Then King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, ‘Who is this man? Who would even think of anything like that? Where is he?’
- Psalms 9:15Into the deep hole that they dug, the nations themselves fell. The net that they hid to catch me, caught their own feet!
- Psalms 35:8Surprise my enemies and destroy them! Let their own traps catch them! Let them fall to their own death!
- Proverbs 5:22The sins of a wicked person will be the trap that catches him. They will hold him like strong ropes.
- Proverbs 29:6The sin of an evil person becomes a trap that catches him. But a righteous person sings with joy.
- Ezekiel 32:3This is what the Almighty Lord says: I will bring a big crowd of people together to catch you in my net. They will use my net to pull you out of the water.
- 1 Timothy 3:7Also, people outside the church should agree that the leader is a good person. Then nobody can say anything bad against him. And so, he will not come under the Devil's power.
- 1 Timothy 6:9But some people want to have lots of money. This causes them to do wrong things. They cannot get free from their bad ways, like an animal in a trap. They want many things for themselves. Their foolish thoughts hurt them and finally destroy their lives.
- 2 Timothy 2:26Their minds will start to think clearly. It is the Devil who has made them believe wrong things. He has made them do what he wants. Now they can get free from his power.
Commentaries on Job 18:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8For he is cast into a net - His own conduct will infallibly bring him to ruin. He shall be like a wild beast taken in a net; the more he flounces in order to extricate himself, the more he shall be entangled. He walketh upon a snare - He is continually walking on the meshes of a net, by which he must soon be entangled and overthrown.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8For he is cast into a net by his own feet - He is caught in his own tricks, as if he had spread a net or dug a pitfall for another, and had fallen into it himself. The meaning is, that he would bring ruin upon himself while he was plotting the rain of others; see Psalm 9:16, “The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands;” compare the note at Job 5:13. The phrase “by his own feet” here means, that he walks there himself. He is not led or driven by…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-10Verses 5-10 Bildad describes the miserable condition of a wicked man; in which there is much certain truth, if we consider that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and that sin will be men's ruin, if they do not repent. Though Bildad thought the application of it to Job was easy, yet it was not safe nor just. It is common for angry disputants to rank their opponents among God's enemies, and to draw wrong conclusions from important truths. The…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-10A series of devices for hunting shows the biblical principle of revenge (see study note on 34:11).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. he walketh upon--rather, "he lets himself go into the net" [Umbreit]. If the English Version be retained, then understand "snare" to be the pitfall, covered over with branches and earth, which when walked upon give way (Psa 9:15; 35:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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