Job 18:7

King James Version 1611 (Original)

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

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  • Prov 4:12 : 12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
  • Ps 18:36 : 36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
  • Prov 1:30-32 : 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
  • Hos 10:6 : 6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
  • 2 Sam 17:14 : 14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
  • Job 5:12-13 : 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
  • Job 15:6 : 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
  • Job 20:22 : 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
  • Job 36:16 : 16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

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  • Job 18:8-12
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    8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

    9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

    10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

    11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

    12 His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • Job 18:14-18
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    14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

    15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

    17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

    18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Ps 7:15-16
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    15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

    16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

  • 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

  • 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

  • 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

  • 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

  • 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

  • 10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

  • Job 20:26-27
    2 verses
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    26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

    27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

  • 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

  • 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

  • 10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

  • 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

  • 5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

  • 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

  • 19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.

  • 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • 8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

  • 5 He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

  • 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • 11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

  • 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • 22 For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

  • 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

  • 9 He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

  • 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

  • 18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

  • 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

  • 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

  • 2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

  • 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

  • 9 A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

  • 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

  • 22 A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

  • 10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

  • 9 That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

  • 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.