Job 18:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For he is cast into a net— The metaphor is taken from a beast, which the hunters have driven into the toils. He runs here and there, striving to find a way out; but the net entangles him more and more, till at length it fastens upon him. Heath: who translates the last clause, he runneth to and fro in the toils; and he observes well, that, the word robber, in the next verse, having no relation to the preceding metaphor, it would be rendered more properly, and the noose fasteneth close upon him. See Houbigant.