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Job 18:7 — The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

steps		Job 20:22; Job 36:16; Psa 18:36; Pro 4:12
his own		Job 5:12,13; 2Sa 15:31; 2Sa 17:14; Psa 33:10; Pro 1:30-32; Hsa 10:6; 1Cr 3:19

Correlating Passages

steps

	Job 20:22	In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
	Job 36:16	Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.
	Psa 18:36	Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
	Pro 4:12	When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

his own

	Job 5:12	He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.
	Job 5:13	He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
	2Sa 15:31	And [one] told David, saying, Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
	2Sa 17:14	And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
	Psa 33:10	The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
	Pro 1:30	They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
	Pro 1:31	Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
	Pro 1:32	For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
	Hsa 10:6	It shall be also carried unto Assyria [for] a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
	1Cr 3:19	For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

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