Psalms 140:5
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
American King James Version (AKJV)
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
American Standard Version (ASV)
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah
Basic English Translation (BBE)
The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)
Webster's Revision
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side: they have set gins for me. Selah.
World English Bible
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. Selah.
English Revised Version (ERV)
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side; they have set gins for me. Selah
Clarke's Psalms 140:5 Bible Commentary
Have hid a snare for me - They hunted David as they would a dangerous wild beast: one while striving to pierce him with the spear; another to entangle him in their snares, so as to take and sacrifice him before the people, on pretense of his being an enemy to the state.
Selah - This is the truth.
Barnes's Psalms 140:5 Bible Commentary
The proud have hid a snare for me - Haughty; arrogant; oppressive men. See Psalm 35:7, note; Psalm 57:6, note.
And cords - Strings; twine; as those do who lay a net to catch birds, and who design to spring it upon them unawares.
They have spread a net by the wayside - Where I may be expected to walk, and where it may be suddenly sprung upon me.
They have set gins for me - Snares, toils - such as are set for wild beasts. The meaning is, that they had not only made open war upon him, but they had sought to bring him into an ambush - to rush upon him suddenly when he was not on his guard, and did not know that, danger was near.
