33And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
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Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-36)Observe here, I. The particular care which the law took of women with child, that no hurt should be done them which might occasion their mis-carrying. The law of nature obliges us to be very tender in that case, lest the tree and fruit be destroyed together, Exod. 21:22 , 23 . Women with child, who are thus taken under the special protection of the law of God, if they live in his fear, may still b…
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