Job 18:8 - Exposition

For he is cast into a net by his own feet. He walks of his own accord into a snare, not necessarily into one that he has himself set for others, as in Psalms 7:15 ; Psalms 9:15 ; Psalms 35:8 ; Psalms 57:6 ; and Proverbs 26:27 ; but either into one of his own setting, or into one laid for him by others (see Proverbs 26:10 ). And he walketh upon a snare . A mere repetition of the idea expressed in the preceding hemistich.