Job 18:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ For they are thrust into a net by their own feet, and they walk into a pitfall.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon a snare.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For the wicked is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a lattice-covered pit.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.

Common English Bible

⁸ They are caught by their feet in a net; they walk on mesh.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web.

Job 18:8 Cross References

Psalm 9:15

The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.

Job 22:10

Therefore snares are around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,

Psalm 35:8

Let ruin come on them unawares, and let the net that they hid ensnare them; let them fall in it—to their ruin.

2 Timothy 2:26

and that they may escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

1 Timothy 3:7

Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace and the snare of the devil.

Ezekiel 32:3

Thus says the Lord God: In an assembly of many peoples I will throw my net over you, and I will haul you up in my dragnet.

Proverbs 29:6

In the transgression of the evil there is a snare, but the righteous sing and rejoice.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

Esther 7:10

So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Esther 7:5

Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?”

Esther 6:13

When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is of the Jewish people, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”

Esther 3:9

If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued for their destruction, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, so that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”

Job 5:5

The hungry eat their harvest, and they take it even out of the thorns, and the thirsty pant after their wealth.

Job 18:9

A trap seizes them by the heel; a snare lays hold of them.

Job 19:6

know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.

Isaiah 24:17

Terror, the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitants of the earth!

Isaiah 24:18

Whoever flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and whoever climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.