The Meaning of Job 18:9 Explained

Job 18:9

KJV: The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

YLT: Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.

Darby: The gin taketh him by the heel, the snare layeth hold on him;

ASV: A gin shall take him by the heel, And a snare shall lay hold on him.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 18:9?

MEANING: What does Job 18:9 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 18:9 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 18:9?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

The gin  shall take  [him] by the heel,  [and] the robber  shall prevail  against him. 

What does Job 18:9 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 18:1-21 - "cast Into A Net"
Bildad's second speech reveals how utterly he failed to understand Job's appeal for a divine witness and surety. Such words were snares to him, Job 18:2, r.v. The deep things that pass in a heart which is enduring sorrow are incomprehensible to shallow and narrow souls.
His description of the calamities which befall the wicked is terrible: their extinguished light, Job 18:5-6; their awful distress, Job 18:7-11; their destruction, Job 18:12-17; the horror with which men shall regard their fate, Job 18:18-21. All this was, of course, intended for Job. It was very severe. Even if the worst had been true, his extreme sufferings should have elicited more tenderness from his friends. Only the strong, wise hand of love can assuage the wounds that sin has made. We are indebted to Bildad for the phrase, king of terrors, as applied to death, Job 18:14. Apart from Christ, it is a significant and appropriate term. Sin has made his monarchy terrible. Yet even he has met his conqueror, John 11:25-26; Hebrews 2:14; 1 Corinthians 15:26.
The ancients had a deep presentiment of the punishments which must overtake sin. Probably we make too little of them. The note of fear has almost died out of modern preaching. In this there is a marked divergence from Baxter's Call to the Unconverted and from Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. But the doom of sin can only be terrible, especially for those to whom Calvary has pleaded in vain. A great atonement implies great sin, and this, a great penalty. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 18

1  Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience
5  The calamities of the wicked

What do the individual words in Job 18:9 mean?

Takes [him] by the heel the net [And] lays hold of him a snare
יֹאחֵ֣ז בְּעָקֵ֣ב פָּ֑ח יַחֲזֵ֖ק עָלָ֣יו צַמִּֽים

יֹאחֵ֣ז  Takes  [him] 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָחוּז 
Sense: grasp, take hold, seize, take possession.
בְּעָקֵ֣ב  by  the  heel 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular
Root: עָקֵב  
Sense: heel, rear, footprint, hinder part, hoof, rear of a troop, footstep.
פָּ֑ח  the  net 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: פַּח 
Sense: bird trap, trap, snare.
יַחֲזֵ֖ק  [And]  lays  hold 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Imperfect Jussive, third person masculine singular
Root: חָזַק  
Sense: to strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute, be sore.
עָלָ֣יו  of  him 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
צַמִּֽים  a  snare 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: צַמִּים  
Sense: snare, trap, noose.

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