Psalms 139:6
The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- absconderunt superbi laqueum mihi. Et funes extenderunt in laqueum ; juxta iter, scandalum posuerunt mihi.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἔκρυψαν ὑπερήφανοι παγίδα μοι, καὶ σχοινία διέτειναν, παγίδας τοῖς ποσίν μου· ἐχόμενα τρίβου σκάνδαλον ἔθεντό μοι. διάψαλμα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 140:6
- טָֽמְנֽוּ גֵאִ֨ים פַּ֡ח לִ֗י וַחֲבָלִ֗ים פָּ֣רְשׂוּ רֶ֭שֶׁת לְיַד מַעְגָּ֑ל מֹקְשִׁ֖ים שָֽׁתוּ לִ֣י סֶֽלָה
Haydock's commentary
Side. The enemies of David calumniated him, and strove to make him follow idols, 1 Kings xxvi. 19.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm CXL
7. “The proud have hidden a trap for me” ( ver. 5 ). He hath briefly described the whole body of the devil, when he saith, “the proud.” Hence is it that for the most part they call themselves righteous when they are unrighteous. Hence is it that nothing is so grievous to them as to confess their sins. They are men who, being falsely righteous, must needs envy the truly righteous. For none envieth another in that which he wisheth not either to be or to seem.…Hence come all allurings and trippings up of others. This the devil first wished, when falling himself he envied man who stood.…
St Gregory the Great Register of the Epistles of St. Gregory the Great, To John, Bishop
But I know that all arises from those who serve your Holiness on terms of deceitful familiarity; against whom I beseech your Fraternity to be prudently on your guard, and not to lay yourself open to be deceived by their words. For they are to be accounted the greater enemies the more they flatter you with praises. Forsake such; and, if they must needs deceive, let them at any rate deceive the hearts of worldly men, and not of priests. Let the dead bury their dead ( Luke ix. 60 ). But say ye with the prophet, Let them be turned back and put to shame that say unto me, Aha, Aha ( Ps. lxix. 4 ). And again, But let not the oil of the sinner lard my head ( Ps. cxl. 5 ).