His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {sins: Heb. sin}

The heathen are sunk down in the pit {that} they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What {is that} to us? see thou {to that}.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled {his} ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father. {followed: Heb. done} {put his...: Heb. gave charge concerning his house}

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon. {gallows: Heb. tree}

The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

A wicked man hardeneth his face: but {as for} the upright, he directeth his way. {directeth: or, considereth}

Righteousness keepeth {him that is} upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. {the sinner: Heb. sin}

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {sins: Heb. sin}

And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.

Much food {is in} the tillage of the poor: but there is {that is} destroyed for want of judgment.

And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

In the transgression of an evil man {there is} a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.