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Bildad continues to describe the wicked person.
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## The steps of his strength...into a pitfall ##
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Bildad uses these images to say that the wicked experience sudden disaster. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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## The steps of his strength ##
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"The steps he takes when he is strong" or "His strong steps"
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## will be made short ##
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"will become short." When a person is strong, he is able to take long and quick steps. When a person is weak, he can only take short steps.
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## his own plans will cast him down ##
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"his own advice makes him fall down"
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## For he will thrown into a net by his own feet ##
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"His own feet will lead him into a net." Bildad uses this image to say that the way that a wicked person lives his life leads him to sudden disaster. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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## a net ##
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cords or ropes that people weave together to create a mesh. People used nets to catch animals.
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## a pitfall ##
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a pit that has branches and leaves over it so that an animal will walk onto the branches and leaves and fall into the pit
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