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Job 18:10
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A rope lies hidden for him on the ground,and a snare waits for him along the path.
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
A trap for them is hidden on the ground, right in their path.
A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.
"A noose is hidden for him on the ground, And a trap for him on the path.
"A noose for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the pathway.
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.
A snare is layed for him in the ground, and a trappe for him in the way.
A rope for him is hidden in the ground,And a trap for him on the path.
A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.
hidden along the path.
A noose is hidden for him in the ground; pitfalls lie in his path.
A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.
A rope is hidden on the ground to trip them. A trap is waiting in their path.
A snare is laid for him on the ground, and a trap for him in his paths.
His rope is hidden in the ground, and his trap on the path.
the pitfall is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him on the way.
The snare is layed for him in the grounde, and a pytfall in the waye.
A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.
The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.
A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
The snare is laide for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
The snare is layde for him in the grounde, and a pitfall in the way.
His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path.
A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
The foot trappe of hym is hid in the erthe, and his snare on the path.
A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.
The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
A noose is hidden for him on the ground, And a trap for him in the road.
A noose lies hidden on the ground. A rope is stretched across their path.
A tied rope is hidden in the ground for him. A trap is set for him on the path.
A rope is hid for them in the ground, a trap for them in the path.
Concealed in the ground is a cord for him, - and a snare for him, on the path.
A gin is hidden for him in the earth, and his trap upon the path.
A rope is hid for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.
Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.
"A noose for him is hidden in the ground, And a trap for him on the path.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
snare: Psalms 11:6, Ezekiel 12:13, Romans 11:9
laid: Heb. hidden
Cross-References
Then he said, "I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them.
I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants."
But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.
But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year."
he said, "Sirs, please do not pass by my home without stopping; I am here to serve you.
I will also bring a bit of food; it will give you strength to continue your journey. You have honored me by coming to my home, so let me serve you." They replied, "Thank you; we accept."
He took some cream, some milk, and the meat, and set the food before the men. There under the tree he served them himself, and they ate.
Then they asked him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" "She is there in the tent," he answered.
Then the Lord asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really have a child when I am so old?'
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The snare [is] laid for him in the ground,.... Or "hidden" r there; for, as Solomon says, "in vain the net is spread in sight of any bird", Proverbs 1:17; and in vain it is to lay a snare publicly in the sight or creature, it will not then come near it, but shun and avoid it; and therefore it is laid underground, or hid in the earth, or in some private place, where the creature it is designed for may be thought to come, or into which it is decoyed; or "the cord" s, that which is fastened to the snare or net, and which the fowler holds in his hand, and pulls with; as he finds occasion and opportunity offers; but this is hid as much as possible, that it may not be seen:
and a trap for him in the way; in which he is used to walk, by the roadside, or in it; Mr. Broughton renders it, "a pitfall on the wayside", such as is dug for beasts to fall into and be taken. The whole of this is designed to show how suddenly and secretly wicked men are taken in nets, and snares, and gins, either of their own or others laying, and, while they are crying "Peace, peace, sudden destruction comes upon them"; see Ecclesiastes 9:12.
r טמון "absconditus", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, &c. s חבלו "funis ejus", Montanus, Tigurine version, Mercerus, Drusius, Cocceius, Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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. This was concealed (Hebrew) “in the earth” - so covered up that an animal would not perceive it, and so constructed that it might be made to spring upon it suddenly.
And a trap - We have no reason to suppose that at that time they employed steel to construct traps as we do now, or that the word here has exactly the sense which we give to it. The Hebrew word (מלכדת malkôdeth) is from לכד lâkad - “to take,” “to catch,” and means a noose, snare, spring - by which an animal was seized. It is a general term; though undoubtedly used to denote a particular instrument, then well known. The general idea in all this is, that the wicked man would be suddenly seized by calamities, as a wild animal or a bird is taken in a snare. Independently of the interest of the entire passage Job 18:8-10 as a part of the argument of Bildad, it is interesting from the view which it gives of the mode of securing wild animals in the early periods of the world. They had no guns as we have; but they early learned the art of setting gins and snares by which they were taken. In illustrating this passage, it will not be inappropriate to refer to some of the modes of hunting practiced by the ancient Egyptians. The same methods were practiced then in catching birds and taking wild beasts as now, and there is little novelty in modern practices. The ancients had not only traps, nets, and springs, but also bird-lime smeared upon twigs, and made use of stalking-horses, setting dogs, etc. The various methods in which this was done, may be seen described at length in Wilkinson’s Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, vol. iii. pp. 1-81. The noose was employed to catch the wild ox, the antelope, and other animals.
This seems to be a self-acting net, so constructed that the birds, when coming in contact with it, close it upon themselves.
This trap appears as if in a vertical position, although, doubtless, it is intended to represent a trap lying upon the ground.
There are other traps very similar to this, except that they are oval; and probably have a net like the former. They are composed of two arcs, which, being kept open by machinery in the middle, furnish the oval frame of the net; but when the bird flies in, and knocks out the pin in the center, the arcs collapse enclosing the bird in the net. One instance occurs, in a painting at Thebes, of a trap, in which a hyaena is caught, and carried on the shoulders of two men. It was a common method of hunting to enclose a large tract of land by a circle of nets, or to station men at convenient distances, and gradually to contract the circle by coming near to each other, and thus to drive all the wild animals into a narrow enclosure, where they could be easily slain. Some idea of the extent of those enclosures may be formed from the by no means incredible circumstance related by Plutarch, that when the Macedonian conquerors were in Persia, Philotos, the son of Armenio, had hunting-nets that would enclose the space of an hundred furlongs. The Oriental sovereigns have sometimes employed whole armies in this species of hunting. Picture Bible.
