Job 18:8
Good News Translation
They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;

New Revised Standard Version
For they are thrust into a net by their own feet, and they walk into a pitfall.

Contemporary English Version
Before they know it,

New American Bible
A net catches him by the feet, he wanders into a pitfall.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.

he is cast

Job 22:10 Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.

Esther 3:9 If it please thee, decree that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents to thy treasurers.

Esther 6:13 And he told Zares his wife, and his friends, all that had befallen him. And the wise men whom he had in counsel, and his wife answered him: If Mardochai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou canst not resist him, but thou shalt fall in his sight.

Esther 7:5,10 And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things? . . .

Psalm 9:15 I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

Psalm 35:8 Let the snare which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net which he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall.

Proverbs 5:22 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

Proverbs 29:6 A snare shall entangle the wicked man when he sinneth: and the just shall praise and rejoice.

Ezekiel 32:3 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: I will spread out my net over thee with the multitude of many people, and I will draw thee up in my net.

1 Timothy 3:7 Moreover, he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

1 Timothy 6:9 For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

2 Timothy 2:26 And they may recover themselves from the snares of the devil by whom they are held captive at his will.

Context
Bildad: God Punishes the Wicked
7The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong. 8For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes.9The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.…
Cross References
Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

Job 18:9
The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him.

Job 19:6
At least now understand, that God hath not afflicted me with an equal judgment, and compassed me with his scourges.

Job 22:10
Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.

Psalm 9:15
I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

Psalm 35:8
Let the snare which he knoweth not come upon him: and let the net which he hath hidden catch him: and into that very snare let them fall.

Isaiah 24:17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou inhabitant of the earth.

Isaiah 24:18
And it shall come to pass, that he that shall flee from the noise of the fear, shall fall into the pit: and he that shall rid himself out of the pit, shall be taken in the snare: for the flood-gates from on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.

Job 18:7
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