They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. "Who will see them?" they say.
Cross References
Job 22:13Yet you say: 'What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
Psalm 10:11He says to himself, "God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees."
Psalm 140:5The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
Psalm 141:9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
Jeremiah 36:24Yet in hearing all these words, the king and his servants did not become frightened or tear their garments.
Treasury of Scripture
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privately; they say, Who shall see them?
encourage
Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Numbers 22:6
Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Proverbs 1:11-14
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: …
matter.
1 Samuel 23:19-23
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? …
Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Matthew 26:3,4
Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, …
of laying snares [heb.
Psalm 124:7
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Psalm 140:5
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.
Who
Psalm 10:11
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Psalm 94:7
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
