Job Chapter 18 verse 8 Holy Bible
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
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His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.
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For he is sent into the net by his own feet, and he walketh on the meshes;
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh.
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For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - For he is cast into a net by his own feet. He walks of his own accord into a snare, not necessarily into one that he has himself set for others, as in Psalm 7:15; Psalm 9:15; Psalm 35:8; Psalm 57:6; and Proverbs 26:27; but either into one of his own setting, or into one laid for him by others (see ver. 10). And he walketh upon a snare. A mere repetition of the idea expressed in the preceding hemistich.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) He is cast into a net.--Job had compared himself to one hunted by the Almighty (Job 10:16), and Bildad here describes the evil man as snared in a net, but it is one for which he has no one to thank but himself. It is his own pit he falls into; the insinuation being that Job is likewise responsible for his calamities, which are the punishment of his sin. It is to be observed that in this and the following verses the speaker heaps together every word he can find descriptive of the art of snaring.
