Job 18:8
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.
Cross References
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; …
Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very …
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own …
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at …
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which …
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare …
In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.