Job 18:10
A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.
BSB
ASV
A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.
KJV
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
The snare is laid - All this language is taken from the modes of taking wild beasts; but it is not possible to designate with absolute certainty the methods in which it was done. The word used here (חבל chebel) means a cord, or rope; and then a snare, gin, or toil, such as is used by hunters. It was used in some way as a noose to secure an animal.
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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Romans 11:9And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
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May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
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Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
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I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the…
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Ezekiel 12:13But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and…
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I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.