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Adam Clarke Commentary
The gin shall take him - Houbigant reads the tenth before the ninth verse, thus: "The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him." From the beginning of the seventh verse to the end of the thirteenth there is an allusion to the various arts and methods practiced in hunting. 1. A number of persons extend themselves in a forest, and drive the game before them, still straitening the space from a broad base to a narrow point in form of a triangle, so that the farther they go the less room have they on the right and left, the hunters lining each side, while the drovers with their dogs are coming up behind. "The steps of his strength shall be straitened," Job 18:7. 2. Nets, gins, and pitfalls, are laid or formed in different places, so that many are taken before they come to the point where the two lines close. "He is cast into a net, he walketh upon a snare - the trap is laid for him in the way - the snare in the ground," Job 18:8-10. 3. The howling of the dogs, with the shouts of the huntsmen, fill him with dismay, and cause him to run himself beyond his strength and out of breath. "Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet," Job 18:11. 4. While spent with hunger and fatigue, he is entangled in the spread nets; and the huntsman either pierces him with an arrow or spear, or cuts the sinews of his legs, so that he is easily captured and destroyed. "The robbers shall prevail against him," Job 18:9. "His strength is hunger-bitten, and destruction is ready at his side," Job 18:12. This latter verse is thus paraphrased by the Chaldee: "Let his first-born son be famished; and affliction be prepared for his wife."
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Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on Job 18:9". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https:/
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible
The gin - Another method of taking wild beasts. It was a snare so made as to spring suddenly on an animal, securing him by the neck or feet. We use a trap for the same purpose. The Hebrew word (פח pach ) may denote anything of this kind - a snare, net, noose, etc. with which birds or wild animals are taken.
By the heel - By the foot.
And the robber shall prevail - He shall be overpowered by the highwayman; or the plunderer shall make a sudden descent upon him, and strip him of his all. The meaning is, that destruction would suddenly overtake him. There can be no doubt that Bildad meant to apply all this to Job.
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Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on Job 18:9". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https:/
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
The gin shall take him by the heel,.... And hold him fast, so that he shall not be able to get away, especially out of such as are set by God himself; for God has his nets, and snares, and gins for wicked men, and such plenty of them, that he even is said to rain them on them; yea, he himself is a gin and a snare unto them, and out of his hands there is no escaping, wherefore it is a terrible thing to fall into them, see Ezekiel 12:13;
and the robber shall prevail against him; either robbers literally taken, such as the Sabeans and Chaldeans, to whom Bildad may have reference, who prevailed against Job, and plundered him of his substance; and such as these, as the word signifies, are "thirsty ones"
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Gill, John. "Commentary on Job 18:9". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". https:/
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
robber — rather answering to “gin” in the parallel clause, “the noose shall hold him fast” [Umbreit].
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Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on Job 18:9". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". https:/
John Trapp Complete Commentary
Job 18:9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.
Ver. 9. The gin shall take him by the heel] Or, he shall lay hold on the trap with his heel, so Mercer readeth it; that is, he foolishly runs upon his own ruin, he perisheth by his own oversight.
And the robber shall prevail against him] Horridi sitibundi, the shag-haired ruffians, that have wasted their own estates, and now thirst after other men’s. Broughton readeth it, The savage shall lay hold on him. So that either by secret contrivance or open violence he shall be undone.
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible
Shall take the by the heel, i.e. take fast hold of him, so as to keep him in those distresses; and when he is insnared the robber shall come upon him, and take, and spoil, or kill him. Or,
the horrible or terrible man; the huntsman, that laid the snare for him. A metaphor from those who hunt for wild beasts, who first lay snares for them, and then seize upon them in the snares.
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
9.The robber — The noose (ch. Job 5:5) shall take fast hold of him. In Job 18:8-10 six different modes of taking wild animals are alluded to. They do not differ much from those still prevailing among barbarous tribes. The variety of figure employed indicates the hopelessness of escape.
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Whedon, Daniel. "Commentary on Job 18:9". "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". https:/
George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
Thirst: the greedy hunter. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "the robber." (Haydock)
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Mark Dunagan Commentary on the Bible
The "snare" is a bird trap, and the "trap" that "snaps shut" is one with some kind of mesh. The "noose" hidden in the ground is a rope with a noose, and the "trap" on the path is the general term (Zuck p. 83). "The world of God is one network of snares for the wicked man" (Davidson).
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
the gin = a gin. Authorized Version, 1611, reads "grin" = a snare. Same meaning, but now obsolete.
the = a
robber = noose.
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Bullinger, Ethelbert William. "Commentary on Job 18:9". "E.W. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". https:/
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Robber, [ tsamiym (Hebrew #6782); cf. Job 18:5] - rather, answering to 'gin' in the parallel clause, 'the noose shall hold him fast' (Umbreit).
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Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on Job 18:9". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". https:/
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.- The gin
- Isaiah 8:14,15
- robber
- 1:15,17; 5:5
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Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on Job 18:9". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https:/
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