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Job 18:8

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18:8For he has been thrown into a net by his feet16

and he wanders into a mesh.17

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Footnotes

  1. 17 The word שְׂבָכָה (sévakhah) is used in scripture for the lattice window (2 Kgs 1:2). The Arabic cognate means “to be intertwined.” So the term could describe a net, matting, grating, or lattice. Here it would be the netting stretched over a pit.

Cross references

  1. 16 See Ps 25:15.

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For he is cast into a net by his own feet,

and he walks on its mesh.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

His feet thrust him into a net;

he wanders into its mesh.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For his own feet lead him into a net,

and he strays into its mesh.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

The wicked walk into a net.

They fall into a pit.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

for he is thrust into a net by his feet,

and he walks into a pitfall.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

For he is cast into a net by his own feet,

And he walketh upon a snare.

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