Holy Scripture
Job 18:9
A church father on this verse
“Bildad says these things using the metaphor of the birds or the animals that are captured in the hunt. In fact, as they can no longer escape after falling into snares and nets, so the impious are caught by inevitable calamities that overwhelm them. And what is worse, after all their schemes have been overturned and re…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9And let snares come upon him: He shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction.
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In context
7Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, And let his counsel deceive him.
8His foot also has been caught in a snare, And let it be entangled in a net.
— Job 18:9 —
10His snare is hidden in the earth, And that which shall take him is by the path.
11Let pains destroy him round about, And let many enemies come about him,