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Job 18:8

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

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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

The gin shall take him by the heel,.... And hold him fast, so that he shall not be able to get away, especially out of…

Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

For he is cast into a net by his own feet - He is caught in his own tricks, as if he had spread a net or dug a pitfall…

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Job 18:5-10

The rest of Bildad's discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921Job 18:8-11

All things hasten on his ruin; the moral order of the world is such that wherever he moves or touches upon it it becomes…