Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.
Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it—to his destruction!
As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!
But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly. They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.
The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright; their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked walks into it instead.
He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.
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