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Job 18:8

New International Reader's Version

Their feet take them into a net. They wander right into it.

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If it pleases you, give the order to destroy them. I’ll even add 375 tons of silver to the king’s officials for the royal treasures.”

He told his wife Zeresh everything that had happened to him. He also told all his friends. His advisers and his wife Zeresh spoke to him. They said, “Your fall from power started with Mordecai. He’s a Jew. So now you can’t stand up against him. You are going to be destroyed!”

So they did. And they used the pole Haman had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger calmed down.

King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is the man who has dared to do such a thing? And where is he?”

A trap grabs hold of their heels. It refuses to let them go.

Then I want you to know that God hasn’t treated me right. In fact, he has captured me in his net.

That’s why traps have been set all around you. That’s why sudden danger terrifies you.

Hungry people eat up the crops of the foolish. They even take the food that grows among thorns. Thirsty people long for the wealth of the foolish.

So let them be destroyed without warning. Let the trap they set for me catch them. Let them fall into the pit and be destroyed.

The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug. Their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

Sinful people are trapped by their own sin. But godly people shout for joy and are glad.

Sinners are trapped by their own evil acts. They are held tight by the ropes of their sins.

Listen, you people of the earth. Terror, a pit and a trap are waiting for you.

Anyone who runs away from the terror will fall into the pit. Anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. The Lord will open the windows of the skies. He will flood the land. The foundations of the earth will shake.

The Lord and King says, “I will use a large crowd of people to throw my net over you. They will pull you up in it.

The leader must also be respected by those who are outside the church. Then he will not be put to shame. He will not fall into the devil’s trap.

People who want to get rich are tempted. They fall into a trap. They are tripped up by wanting many foolish and harmful things. Those who live like that are dragged down by what they do. They are destroyed and die.

Maybe they will come to their senses. Maybe they will escape the devil’s trap. He has taken them as prisoners to do what he wanted.




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