His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
Cross References
Job 15:6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
Proverbs 4:12When you walk, your steps will not be impeded; when you run, you will not stumble.
Treasury of Scripture
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
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.
Psalm 18:36
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
his own
Job 5:12,13
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise…
2 Samuel 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.
2 Samuel 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.
