Job 18:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

Job 18:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Job 22:10
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Psalms 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.
1 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.
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.

Topics

Net Wicked (people)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-10)

The rest of Bildad’s discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked man, in which there is a great deal of certain truth, and which will be of excellent use if duly considered—that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and that iniquity will be men’s ruin if they do not repent of it. But it is not true that all wicked people are visibly and openly…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. 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).