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 …
Other Translations
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.
Cross References
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their …
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; …
In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall …
The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.