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For he has been thrown into a net by his feet[a]
and he wanders into a mesh.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 18:8 tn See Ps 25:15.
  2. Job 18:8 tn The word שְׂבָכָה (sevakhah) is used in scripture for the lattice window (2 Kgs 1:2). The Arabic cognate means “to be intertwined.” So the term could describe a net, matting, grating, or lattice. Here it would be the netting stretched over a pit.

His feet thrust him into a net;(A)
    he wanders into its mesh.

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