If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.”
Job 18:8 - Revised Standard Version For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on a pitfall. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon a snare. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the wicked is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a lattice-covered pit. American Standard Version (1901) For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils. Common English Bible They are caught by their feet in a net; they walk on mesh. Catholic Public Domain Version For he has caused his own feet to go into a net, and he has walked into its web. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For he hath thrust his feet into a net, and walketh in its meshes. |
If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.”
And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”
And the king said, “Hang him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
Then King Ahasu-erus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, that would presume to do this?”
know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden terror overwhelms you;
His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Let ruin come upon them unawares! And let the net which they hid ensnare them; let them fall therein to ruin!
The nations have sunk in the pit which they made; in the net which they hid has their own foot been caught.
An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.
Terror, and the pit, and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!
He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
Thus says the Lord God: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples; and I will haul you up in my dragnet.
moreover he must be well thought of by outsiders, or he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.
and they may escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.