Job 18:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־שֻׁלַּח בְּרֶשֶׁת בְּרַגְלָיו וְעַל־שְׂבָכָה יִתְהַלָּךְ

Transliteration

kî-šullaḥ bərešet bəraglāyw wəʿal-śəḇāḵāh yithalāḵ

Grammar Details

*kî-šullaḥ*: conjunction + Pual perfect, 3rd masculine singular - for he is cast
*bərešet*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - into a net
*bəraglāyw*: preposition + noun, feminine dual construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix - by his feet
*wəʿal*: conjunction + preposition - and upon
*śəḇāḵāh*: noun, feminine singular - lattice/network
*yithalāḵ*: Hithpael imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he walks about

Word Meanings

*kî-šullaḥ*: for he is cast/sent/thrown
*bərešet*: into a net/snare/trap
*bəraglāyw*: by his feet/legs
*wəʿal-śəḇāḵāh*: and upon a lattice/network/mesh
*yithalāḵ*: he walks about/wanders/paces

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 22:10 : 10 Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee,
Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Ps 35:8 : 8 Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
Prov 29:6 : 6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; But the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
Ezek 32:3 : 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.
1 Tim 3:7 : 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.
2 Tim 2:26 : 26 and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.
Esth 3:9 : 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.
Esth 6:13 : 13 And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
Esth 7:5 : 5 Then spake the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

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