Job 18:8

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

“If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it. Whoever rolls a stone, it will come back on him.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

He has turned away my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”

Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”

If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken.

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

but these lay in wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

“ ‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.

The Lord Yahweh says: “I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they will bring you up in my net.

Because of this, the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.

Then he called to me, and spoke to me, saying, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.