Job 18:7

Another figure for the same thought. His firm, wide steps of prosperity and security, when he walked in a wide place (Psalms 4:1), become narrowed and hampered. Widening of the steps is a usual Oriental figure for the bold and free movements of one in prosperity, as straitening of them is for the constrained and timid action of one in adversity, cf. Proverbs 4:12 and Psalms 18:36. The figure hardly describes the consequences of the sinner's light going out, it is rather independent and parallel to that figure. Cf. ch. Job 13:27.

his own counsel The evil principles that guide his conduct, ch. Job 10:3; Psalms 1:1. These inevitably lead him into calamity, cf. ch. Job 4:8.