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Job 18:10

Job 18:10
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side,.... Make him a "Magormissabib", or "terror on every side", as Pashur was a terror to himself, Jer 20:3, and all his friends about him; these terrors may be…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The snare is laid - All this language is taken from the modes of taking wild beasts; but it is not possible to designate with absolute certainty the methods in which it was done. The word used here…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 18:5-10

The rest of Bildad's discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked man, in which there is a great deal of certain truth, and which will be of…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 18:8-11

All things hasten on his ruin; the moral order of the world is such that wherever he moves or touches upon it it becomes a snare to seize him. "Snares" do not mean temptations, they are hidden…

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