Job 18:9

American Standard Version (1901)

A gin shall take [him] by the heel, [And] a snare shall lay hold on him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 1:15 : 15 and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away: yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
  • Job 1:17 : 17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
  • Job 5:5 : 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
  • Isa 8:14-15 : 14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

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  • Job 18:7-8
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  • Ps 10:8-10
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  • Ps 35:8
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  • Prov 5:22
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  • Ps 9:15
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  • Eccl 10:8
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    8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a wall, a serpent shall bite him.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.

  • Ezek 19:8
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    8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

  • Hab 2:7
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    7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booty unto them?

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    5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.

  • Prov 21:18
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    15He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

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  • Job 22:10
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  • Prov 3:26
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