Job 18:9 - Exposition

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber (rather, the man-trap ) shall prevail against him . Fifty years ago man-traps were commonly set at night in gardens and orchards in this country, which held intending thieves until the proprietor came and took them before a magistrate in the morning. (On the employment of such traps in antiquity, see Herod; 2:121. § 2.)