6. They have prepared a net for my steps. The
enemies of the godly spare no pains, but go about their wicked work with the
coolest deliberation. As for each sort of fish, or bird, or beast, a fitting
net is needed, so do the ungodly suit their net to their victim’s circumstances
and character with a careful craftiness of malice. Whatever David might do, and
whichever way he might turn, his enemies were ready to entrap him in some way
or other. My soul is bowed down. He was held down like a bird in a trap;
his enemies took care to leave him no chance of comfort. They have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. He likens
the design of his persecutors to pits, which were commonly dug by hunters in
the usual path of the victim, and in this case David says before me, that
is, in my ordinary way. He rejoices because these devices had recoiled upon
themselves. Saul hunted David, but David caught him more than once and might
have slain him on the spot. Selah. We may sit down at the pit’s mouth
and view with wonder the just retaliations of providence.
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