“The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.”
"The steps of his strength are shortened, and his own counsel casts him down." The wicked person's vigor fails; his steps shorten. More importantly, his own counsel—his own thinking—becomes the instrument of his downfall. The verse suggests that wickedness is self-defeating; the wicked person is trapped by his own logic.
Church Fathers on Job 18:7
In a former part of this work we have handled the point, that Almighty God, in order to amend the hearts of those under the law, brought forward the life of blessed Job for a testimony, who knew not the law and yet kept it, who observed the precepts of life, which he had not received in writing. This man’s conduct is first extolled by God’s bearing witness to it, and is afterwards suffered to be put to the proof by the devil’s plotting against it, that he might prove by the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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