6In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
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And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. …
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6)Here is, 1. The peril of a sinful way. There is not only a punishment at the end of it, but a snare in it. One sin is a temptation to another, and there are troubles which, as a snare , come suddenly upon evil men in the midst of their transgressions; nay, their transgression itself often involves them in vexations; their sin is their punishment, and they are holden in the cords of their own iniqu…
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