Bildad continues to describe the wicked person.

## The steps of his strength...into a pitfall ##

Bildad uses these images to say that the wicked experience sudden disaster. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

## The steps of his strength ##

"The steps he takes when he is strong" or "His strong steps"

## will be made short ##

"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.

## his own plans will cast him down ##

"his own advice makes him fall down"

## For he will thrown into a net by his own feet ##

"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]])

## a net ##

cords or ropes that people weave together to create a mesh. People used nets to catch animals.

## a pitfall ##

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