Job 18:7
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 18 connects to 10 cross-references. Bildad delivers his second speech, scolding Job for treating his friends as senseless animals. He provides an extended description of the fate of the wicked: their light is extinguished, they are snared and terrorized, disease consumes them, and their memory …
Autres traductions
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.
Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.
The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.
Références croisées
And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, …
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel …
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; …
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.