KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 18:8–9
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Job 18:8
8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
8For hee is cast into a net by his owne feete, & he walketh vpon a snare.
Job 18:9
9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
9The grinne shall take him by the heele, and the robber shall preuaile against him.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 18:8
To throw, send forth, place, reckon, or discard, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A meshed device for catching; figuratively, a snare or trap.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A device or stratagem used to catch or entangle; figuratively, a cause of danger, sin, or ruin.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 18:9
Snare, trap.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The back part of the foot; figuratively, the rear or a vulnerable point.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One who takes what belongs to another by theft, violence, or wrongful force.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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From verse 8
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Open the full verse study15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
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Open the full verse study10Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
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Open the full verse study8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
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Open the full verse study7Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
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Open the full verse study9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
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Open the full verse study26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
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Open the full verse study9If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.
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Open the full verse study13And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
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Open the full verse study10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
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Open the full verse study5¶ Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
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Open the full verse study3Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
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Open the full verse study6In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
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Open the full verse study22¶ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study14And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
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Open the full verse study15And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
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Open the full verse study17While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
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Open the full verse study5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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