Job 18:8

World English Bible (2000)

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

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  • Job 22:10 : 10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
  • Ps 9:15 : 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
  • Ps 35:8 : 8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
  • Prov 29:6 : 6 An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.
  • Ezek 32:3 : 3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
  • 1 Tim 3:7 : 7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
  • 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.
  • Esth 3:9 : 9 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king's business, to bring it into the king's treasuries."
  • Esth 6:13 : 13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him."
  • Esth 7:5 : 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, and where is he who dared 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 18:9-11
    3 verses
    89%

    9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

    10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

    11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

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

  • 8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Ps 9:15-16
    2 verses
    80%

    15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

    16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

  • 22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

  • 15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

  • Ps 10:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

    10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

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

  • 10 Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

  • 8 He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

  • Prov 1:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

    17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

    18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • 11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'

  • Prov 29:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

    6 An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

  • 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

  • 15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."

  • 5 Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?

  • 6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

  • 23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

  • 18 Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

  • 10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

  • 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • 2 You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

  • 26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

  • Ps 141:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

    10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by. A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.

  • 18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

  • 5 Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

  • 5 In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

  • 27 You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

  • 6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

  • 12 For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

  • 5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

  • 9 He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

  • 6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

  • 9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

  • 13 An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

  • 21 who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

  • 20 I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

  • 24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?

  • 27 Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

  • 13 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

  • 5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.