16 for their feet rush into evil,(A)
    they are swift to shed blood.(B)
17 How useless to spread a net
    where every bird can see it!
18 These men lie in wait(C) for their own blood;
    they ambush only themselves!(D)

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16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

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18 to preserve them from the pit,(A)
    their lives from perishing by the sword.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 33:18 Or from crossing the river

18 He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

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You, Lord, brought me up from the realm of the dead;(A)
    you spared me from going down to the pit.(B)

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O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

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