The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.

Ver. 9. The gin shall take him by the heel] Or, he shall lay hold on the trap with his heel, so Mercer readeth it; that is, he foolishly runs upon his own ruin, he perisheth by his own oversight.

And the robber shall prevail against him] Horridi sitibundi, the shag-haired ruffians, that have wasted their own estates, and now thirst after other men's. Broughton readeth it, The savage shall lay hold on him. So that either by secret contrivance or open violence he shall be undone.

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