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Net: Figurative

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Job 18:8 For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.
Job 19:6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Psalm 9:15 The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
Psalm 10:9 He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
Psalm 25:15 My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.
Psalm 31:4 You free me from the net laid out for me, for You are my refuge.
Psalm 35:7, 8 For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul. / May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
Psalm 57:6 They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah
Psalm 66:11 You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.
Psalm 140:5 The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
Psalm 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
Proverbs 12:12 The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
Proverbs 29:5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Ecclesiastes 9:12 For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
Isaiah 19:8 Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
Ezekiel 26:5, 14 She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations, / I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’
Ezekiel 47:10 Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
Hosea 7:12 As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together.