Job 18:7
The steps of his strength are restricted, || And his own counsel casts him down.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
In Context
6The light has been dark in his tent, || And his lamp over him is extinguished.
8For he is sent into a net by his own feet, || And he habitually walks on a snare.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:14And Absalom says—and all the men of Israel, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel”; and YHWH willed to make void the good counsel of Ahithophel for the sake of YHWH’s bringing the calamity to Absalom.
Job 5:12Making void thoughts of the cunning, || And their hands do not execute wisdom.
Job 20:22In the fullness of his sufficiency he is constricted. Every perverse hand meets him.
Psalms 18:36You enlarge my step under me, || And my ankles have not slipped.
Proverbs 1:30They have not consented to my counsel, || They have despised all my reproof,
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect makes his way right, || And by his wickedness the wicked fall.
Matthew Henry on Job 18:6-11
Miserable Condition of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. 9 The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground,… Read the whole commentary →