So now there are pitfalls all around you, and suddenly you are full of fear.

If it please Your Majesty, issue a decree that they are to be put to death. If you do, I guarantee that I will be able to put 375 tons of silver into the royal treasury for the administration of the empire."

He told his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then she and those wise friends of his told him, "You are beginning to lose power to Mordecai. He is a Jew, and you cannot overcome him. He will certainly defeat you."

Then King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, "Who dares to do such a thing? Where is this man?"

So Haman was hanged on the gallows that he had built for Mordecai. Then the king's anger cooled down.

The heathen have dug a pit and fallen in; they have been caught in their own trap.

But destruction will catch them before they know it; they will be caught in their own trap and fall to their destruction!

The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

Evil people are trapped in their own sins, while honest people are happy and free.

When many nations gather, I will catch you in my net and let them drag the net ashore.

He should be a man who is respected by the people outside the church, so that he will not be disgraced and fall into the Devil's trap.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and are caught in the trap of many foolish and harmful desires, which pull them down to ruin and destruction.

And then they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the Devil, who had caught them and made them obey his will.