Snare

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningAmos 3:5
• FIGURATIVE
• Of the evils in life of wicked peopleJob 18:8–10
• Of the devices of evil people to deceive the righteousPsalms 91:3Jeremiah 5:26
• See Ambush
• See Conspiracy
• See Pit

The passages, in Bible order (4)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 4 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Job 18:8–10

   For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

   ›Commentary on Job 18:8–101 voice

   “In this he seems, all along, to have an eye to Job's complaints of the miserable condition he was in, that he was in the dark, bewildered, ensnared, terrified, and hastening out of the world. "This," says Bildad, "is the condition of a wicked man; and therefore thou art one." Second Address of Eliphaz.

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2. Psalms 91:3

   Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 91:32 voices

   “For he himself will free me from the snare of the hunters. There are many hunters in this world, who try to hunt down our soul. Indeed even that giant Nimrod was a great hunter in the sight of the Lord: and Esau was a hunter, because he was a sinner; and nowhere in the holy Scriptures do we find any holy hunter. Fishermen we find to be holy. For he himself will free me from the snare of the hunters.

   “Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,.... These are the words of the psalmist, either speaking to himself, for the encouragement of his own faith and trust in the Lord; or to the man that dwells in the secret place, and under the shadow of the most High; which latter seems most agreeable; though Cocceius thinks they are the words of God in one of his Persons, speaking of another divine Person that should deliver such that trust in him: the Targum makes them to be the words of David to Solomon his son.

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3. Jeremiah 5:26

   For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 5:262 voices

   “(Verse 26.) Because there were found among my people wicked ones plotting like bird catchers, setting snares and traps to capture men; like a net full of birds, so is their house full of deceit. Why did a temporary and late rain deviate from them, and all good things not come? The reasons are given: because there were found among his people wicked ones. He did not say, the unjust and sinners (as the new heresy wants), but the wicked. Impiety openly denies God; if it confesses error iniquity and sin, it easily turns God to mercy.

   “They catch - Such a trap did Jezebel lay for Naboth, 1 Kings xxi, 9, 10. Such an one was that conspiracy of more than forty men against Paul, Acts xxiii, 13-15.

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4. Amos 3:5

   Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?

   ›Commentary on Amos 3:52 voices

   The foe corresponds to the "snare," suddenly springing from the ground and enclosing the bird on the latter touching it; the Hebrew is literally, "Shall the snare spring from the earth?" Israel entangled in judgments answers to the bird "taken."

   “When God has come forth to contend with a sinful people it is necessary that they should understand, 1. That it is their own sin that has entangled them; for can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth where no gin is for him?

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