Job 18:8
For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
BSB
ASV
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
KJV
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
In this he seems, all along, to have an eye to Job's complaints of the miserable condition he was in, that he was in the dark, bewildered, ensnared, terrified, and hastening out of the world. "This," says Bildad, "is the condition of a wicked man; and therefore thou art one." Second Address of Eliphaz.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Psalms 35:8May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
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The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
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Esther 6:13Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will…
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He who walks with integrity will be kept safe, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.
Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in…
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”
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Psalms 9:15The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
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They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah