Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.
New American Standard Bible
And a trap snaps shut on him.
King James Version
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Holman Bible
a noose seizes him.
International Standard Version
The trap seizes him by the heel; a snare tightens its hold on him.
A Conservative Version
A trap shall take [him] by the heel. A snare shall lay hold on him.
American Standard Version
A gin shall take him by the heel, And a snare shall lay hold on him.
Amplified
“A snare catches him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.
Bible in Basic English
His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.
Darby Translation
The gin taketh him by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;
Julia Smith Translation
A snare shall lay hold upon the heel, the noose shall hold fast upon him.
King James 2000
The trap shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold of him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A trap seizes [him] by [the] heel; a snare takes hold of him.
Modern King James verseion
The trap shall take him by the heel, and the noose shall hold sway over him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
His foot shall be holden in the gilder, and the thirsty shall catch him.
NET Bible
A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.
New Heart English Bible
A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
The Emphasized Bible
There catcheth him - by the heel - a gin, there holdeth him fast - a noose:
Webster
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
World English Bible
A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
Themes
Knowledge » Those that do not know the lord
Snare » Figurative » Of the evils in life of wicked people
Topics
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 18:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's Second Speech
8 For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually. 9 Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing. 10 Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
Names
Cross References
Job 1:15
and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare it to thee.'
Job 1:17
While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, 'Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare it to thee.'
Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
Isaiah 8:14-15
And He hath been for a sanctuary, And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, To the two houses of Israel, For a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.