Psalm 140:5 The arrogant have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
The arrogant have hidden a snare for me; they have spread out the cords of their net and have set traps for me along my path.

English Standard Version
The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah

New American Standard Bible
The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set snares for me. Selah.

King James Bible
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The proud hide a trap with ropes for me; they spread a net along the path and set snares for me. Selah

International Standard Version
The arrogant have laid a trap for me; they have spread a net with ropes, lining it with snares along the way. Interlude

American Standard Version
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
the proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Darby Bible Translation
The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way-side; they have set traps for me. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

Cross References

Job 18:9
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

Job 30:12
On my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Psalm 10:9
He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

Psalm 31:4
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privately for me: for you are my strength.

Psalm 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dig for my soul.

Psalm 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalm 57:6
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dig a pit before me, into the middle whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Psalm 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privately; they say, Who shall see them?

Psalm 119:61
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten your law.

Psalm 119:110
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from your precepts.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

140:1-7 The more danger appears, the more earnest we should be in prayer to God. All are safe whom the Lord protects. If he be for us, who can be against us? We should especially watch and pray, that the Lord would hold up our goings in his ways, that our footsteps slip not. God is as able to keep his people from secret fraud as from open force; and the experience we have had of his power and care, in dangers of one kind, may encourage us to depend upon him in other dangers.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. snare [and] net—for threatening dangers (compare Ps 38:12; 57:6).

Psalm 140:4

Psalm 140:6

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