Job 18:9
A trap seizes on the heel, || The designing prevails over him.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
In Context
8For he is sent into a net by his own feet, || And he habitually walks on a snare.
10His cord is hidden in the earth, || And his trap on the path.
Cross References
Job 1:17While this [one] is speaking another also has come and says, “Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and they have struck the young men by the mouth of the sword, and I have escaped—only I alone—to declare [it] to you.”
Psalms 9:16YHWH has been known, || He has done judgment; By a work of his hands || The wicked has been snared. Meditation. Selah.
Isaiah 8:14And He has been for a sanctuary, || And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, || To the two houses of Israel, || For a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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 →