Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.
Ver. 6. Let their way be dark and slippery] Heb. Darkness and slipperiness. If a man have neither light nor firm footing, and a fierce enemy at his heels, what shift can he make for himself? The word rendered slippery is of a double form (like that libbi secharchar, my heart panteth or beateth about, throbbeth, Psa 38:10), to increase the signfication. See Jeremiah 23:12. The soul of a wicked man is in a sling, 1 Samuel 25:29, violently tossed about.