⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

¹⁰ Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,

⁸ Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

²⁶ and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

⁹ But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

⁷ Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.

⁶ An evil man is snared by his sin, But the righteous can sing and be glad.

²² The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

⁵ Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that dared presume in his heart to do so?

¹³ 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, be of the seed of the Jews, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.

⁹ If it please 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 have the charge of the [king's] business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.