Job 18:9

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A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare holds him tight.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 1:15 : 15 when the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'
  • Job 1:17 : 17 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, 'The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties, swept down on the camels, and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'
  • Job 5:5 : 5 The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.
  • Isa 8:14-15 : 14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare. 15 Many will stumble over it; they will fall and be broken, they will be ensnared and captured.

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  • Job 18:10-12
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    88%

    10His rope lies hidden in the ground, and his trap is set along the path.

    11Terrors frighten him on every side and chase him at his heels.

    12Hunger consumes his strength, and calamity is ready at his side.

  • Job 18:7-8
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    87%

    7His vigorous steps will be restricted, and his own counsel will cast him down.

    8For his feet are cast into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

  • Ps 10:8-10
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    77%

    8He sits in ambush in the villages; in the hiding places he murders the innocent; his eyes stealthily watch for the helpless.

    9He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the afflicted; he catches the afflicted by drawing them into his net.

    10He crouches, he bows down, and the helpless fall by his strong claws.

  • Amos 3:5
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    5Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no bait for it? Does a trap spring up from the earth when it has caught nothing?

  • Ps 35:8
    74%

    8May destruction come upon them unawares. May the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into their own trap.

  • Prov 5:22
    74%

    22The wicked will be caught by his own iniquities, and he will be held fast by the cords of his sin.

  • Ps 9:15
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    15So that I may recount all your praises in the gates of Daughter Zion; I will rejoice in your salvation.

  • Eccl 10:8
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    8Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

  • Ps 141:9
    72%

    9Keep me from the trap they have set for me and from the snares of those who do evil.

  • Ezek 19:8
    72%

    8The nations surrounded him from all their provinces. They spread their net over him and trapped him in their pit.

  • Hab 2:7
    72%

    7Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will not those who make you tremble wake up? Then you will become their plunder.

  • Job 5:5
    72%

    5The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

  • Prov 21:18
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    18The wicked serve as a ransom for the righteous, and the treacherous for the upright.

  • Ps 7:15
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    15Behold, the wicked conceives evil, is pregnant with mischief, and gives birth to lies.

  • Ps 109:11
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    11May a creditor seize all he owns, and may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

  • Job 5:13
    71%

    13He traps the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the twisted are quickly foiled.

  • Prov 11:6
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    6The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are trapped by their own desires.

  • Job 20:16
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    16He will suck the venom of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.

  • Job 15:24
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    24Distress and anguish terrify him; they overpower him like a king prepared for battle.

  • Job 22:10
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    10That is why snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you.

  • Prov 3:26
    70%

    26For the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

  • Job 40:24
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    24Can anyone capture him by his eyes or pierce his nose with snares?

  • Prov 28:10
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    10Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

  • Isa 8:15
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    15Many will stumble over it; they will fall and be broken, they will be ensnared and captured.

  • Job 33:11
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    11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring a raiding party upon them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet.

  • Job 27:22
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    22It hurls itself against him without mercy; he flees desperately from its power.

  • Ps 69:22
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    22They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

  • Job 27:20
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    20Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a storm sweeps him away.

  • Prov 1:17-18
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    70%

    17Surely in vain is the net spread in sight of any bird,

    18But these men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

  • Jer 5:26
    70%

    26Among My people are wicked men. They lie in wait like those who set traps; they set deadly snares to catch people.

  • Job 15:21
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    21Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity, the destroyer will come upon him.

  • Prov 22:5
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    5Thorns and snares are in the path of the crooked; whoever guards their soul will stay far from them.

  • Prov 7:23
    70%

    23Until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird rushing into a trap, not realizing it will cost him his life.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plot to overthrow my steps.

  • Job 20:22
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    22In the fullness of his plenty, he will be distressed; the hand of all who toil will come upon him.

  • Prov 6:5
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    5Free yourself like a gazelle from the trap, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

  • Luke 11:22
    69%

    22But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up his plunder.

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Yet He is wise and brings disaster; He does not take back His words. He will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of those who practice wickedness.

  • Prov 12:13
    69%

    13By the sin of their lips, the wicked are trapped, but the righteous escape trouble.

  • Isa 29:21
    69%

    21Those who cause humanity to sin with a word, who set traps for the one who rebukes in the gate, and who twist justice by making the righteous nothing, will be judged.

  • Ps 49:5
    69%

    5I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will expound my riddle on the harp.