They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
Ver. 5. They encourage themselves in an evil matter] Thus he riseth in his complaint, and showeth how, by the neglect of piety and humanity, they were grown obdurate and obstinate, yea, confident, or rather impudent, in their evil practices.
They commune of laying snares privily] viz. To entangle and entrap me. See Nehemiah 4:11, See Trapp on " Neh 4:11 "
They say, Who shall see them?] God, who is all eye, shall, but they, having hid God from themselves, think they can likewise hide themselves and their snares from God. But
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