Devine Scripture

Job 18:8

Job chapter 18 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

v.8This passage

v.9A gin shall take him by the heel, Anda snare shall lay hold on him.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 32:3

    Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

  • Job 22:10

    Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee,

  • Proverbs 29:6

    In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; But the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

  • Esther 3:9

    If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.

  • Esther 7:10

    So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

  • Psalms 9:15

    The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.