10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
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And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)The rest of Bildad’s discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked man, in which there is a great deal of certain truth, and which will be of excellent use if duly considered—that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and that iniquity will be men’s ruin if they do not repent of it. But it is not true that all wicked people are visibly and openly…
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