Job 18:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 1:15 : 15 and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
  • Job 1:17 : 17 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
  • Job 5:5 : 5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
  • Isa 8:14-15 : 14 He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."

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    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.

    12 His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.

  • Job 18:7-8
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    7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

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

  • Ps 10:8-10
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    77%

    8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

    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.

  • Amos 3:5
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    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?

  • Ps 35:8
    74%

    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
    74%

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

  • Ps 9:15
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    15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • Eccl 10:8
    73%

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

  • Ps 141:9
    72%

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

  • Ezek 19:8
    72%

    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.

  • Hab 2:7
    72%

    7 Won't your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up those who make you tremble, and you will be their victim?

  • Job 5:5
    72%

    5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

  • Prov 21:18
    71%

    18 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous for the upright.

  • Ps 7:15
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    15 He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

  • Ps 109:11
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    11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

  • Job 5:13
    71%

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

  • Prov 11:6
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    6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

  • Job 20:16
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    16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him.

  • Job 15:24
    71%

    24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  • Job 22:10
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    10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

  • Prov 3:26
    70%

    26 for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

  • Job 40:24
    70%

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

  • Prov 28:10
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    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.

  • Isa 8:15
    70%

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

  • Job 33:11
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    11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'

  • Jer 18:22
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    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.

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    22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

  • Ps 69:22
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    22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

  • Job 27:20
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    20 Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

  • Prov 1:17-18
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    70%

    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.

  • Jer 5:26
    70%

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

  • Job 15:21
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    21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

  • Prov 22:5
    70%

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

  • Prov 7:23
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    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.

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    70%

    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.

  • Job 20:22
    70%

    22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

  • Prov 6:5
    70%

    5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

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

  • Luke 11:22
    69%

    22 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.

  • Isa 31:2
    69%

    2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

  • Prov 12:13
    69%

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

  • Isa 29:21
    69%

    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.

  • Ps 49:5
    69%

    5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?