Reference: Snares
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Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.
till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Hear this, ye priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king: for this judgment is for you; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
Is Ephraim a watchman with my God? nay the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, enmity in the house of his God.
Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth when no gin is laid for him? Will the snare spring up from the earth when nothing at all hath been taken?
Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth when no gin is laid for him? Will the snare spring up from the earth when nothing at all hath been taken?
And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:
But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what is seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction.