Job 18:7

WEB

⁷The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

KJV

⁷The steps^[+] of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

BSB

⁷His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

FBV

⁷Instead of taking strong strides they stumble, and their own plans cause them to fall.

Extra References

Proverbs 4:12

¹²When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

Psalms 18:36

³⁶You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

Psalms 33:10

¹⁰The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Job 36:16

¹⁶Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

2 Samuel 15:31

³¹Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Job 5:12-13

¹²He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. ¹³He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Job 15:6

⁶Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

1 Corinthians 3:19

¹⁹For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

Hosea 10:6

⁶It also will be carried to Assyria for a present to a great king. Ephraim will receive shame, and Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

³⁰They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. ³¹Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes. ³²For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.