Holy Scripture

Job 18:8

A church father on this verse
“Bildad says these things using the metaphor of the birds or the animals that are captured in the hunt. In fact, as they can no longer escape after falling into snares and nets, so the impious are caught by inevitable calamities that overwhelm them. And what is worse, after all their schemes have been overturned and re…”
Olympiodorus of Alexandria, 6th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 18:7-9

Source: Septuagint

Original

8His foot also has been caught in a snare, And let it be entangled in a net.

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6His light shall be darkness in his habitation, And his lamp shall be put out with him.

7Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, And let his counsel deceive him.

— Job 18:8 —

9And let snares come upon him: He shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.

10His snare is hidden in the earth, And that which shall take him is by the path.

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