Job 18:7
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Updated King James 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 shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:14And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
Job 5:12He dissapoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 20:22In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Psalms 18:36You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
Proverbs 1:30They refused my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall 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 →