It will be as when a man is fleeing from a lion—and meets a bear! Or he comes home, leans his hand on the wall, and a snake bites him!
Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a fence may be bitten by a snake.
to deprive the helpless of justice and rob the rights of the poor of My people, so that widows may be their spoil and orphans their prey!
What will you do in the day of visitation, when desolation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
When the natives saw the snake hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer! Though he has been saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
Wasted by famine, ravaged by plague and pestilence so bitter, fangs of beasts I’ll let loose on them, with venom of creepers in the dust.
Joshua said, “Roll large stones onto the mouth of the cave, assign men over it to guard them,