“The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.”
Bible
“The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.”
“And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: / Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.”
“The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”
William Penn
“None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware”
Robert Herrick
“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”
Daniel Defoe
