Job 18:7

World English Bible (2000)

The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

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  • Prov 4:12 : 12 When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.
  • Ps 18:36 : 36 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
  • Ps 33:10 : 10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
  • Prov 1:30-32 : 30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes. 32 For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
  • Hos 10:6 : 6 It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will 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 has taken the wise in their craftiness."
  • 2 Sam 15:31 : 31 Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." David said, "Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
  • 2 Sam 17:14 : 14 Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
  • Job 5:12-13 : 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
  • Job 15:6 : 6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
  • Job 20:22 : 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.
  • Job 36:16 : 16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

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