Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.
Ver. 22. Let their table become a snare before them] Let them eat their bane, and drink their poison; while all their cares are sauced with the wrath of God: Quoniam hoe mode cibarunt me, saith Kimchi, because they have served me on this sort. By "table," saith another interpreter, we are to understand all means of comfort and refreshing, both of body and soul, which turn to the ruin of the wicked, even an odour of death unto death, 2 Corinthians 2:15,16 .
And that which should have been, &c.] Tremellius rendereth it, Pro retributionibus, pro tendicula ipsis, for recompenses, for a trap to them Romans 11:9; others, Pacifiea in rete! others again, Et ubi pacem sperant, illic impingant, Where they hope for peace let them fall.