Job 18:8

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Summary

Job 18:8

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

He is cast

Bible References

He is cast

“Therefore snares surround you,
And sudden dread terrifies you,

If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king’s business, to put into the king’s treasuries.”

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 origin, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him.”

Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to do thus?”

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Let destruction come upon him unawares,
And let the net which he hid catch himself;
Into that very destruction let him fall.

His own iniquities will capture the wicked,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

By transgression an evil man is ensnared,
But the righteous sings and rejoices.

Thus says the Lord God,
“Now I will spread My net over you
With a company of many peoples,
And they shall lift you up in My net.

And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.