King James Version
Job 18:8 in the King James Version says “For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.” — study this verse from Job chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.”
Job 18:8 · KJV
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. candle: or, lamp
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. laid: Heb. hidden
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“by his own feet”
H7272a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“upon a snare”
H7639a net-work, i.e., (in hunting) a snare, (in architecture) a ballustrade; also a reticulated ornament to a pillar
“and he walketh”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
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