Job 18:7
The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:14Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil on Absalom.
Job 5:12He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
Job 20:22In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.
Psalms 18:36You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
Proverbs 1:30They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
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 →