Proverbs 1:11
11-14. Murder and robbery are given as specific illustrations.
lay wait . . . lurk privily—express an effort and hope for successful concealment. swallow . . . grave—utterly destroy the victim and traces of the crime (Nu 16:33; Ps 55:15). Abundant rewards of villainy are promised as the fruits of this easy and safe course.Proverbs 1:17-18
17-19. Men warned ought to escape danger as birds instinctively avoid visibly spread nets. But stupid sinners rush to their own ruin (Ps 9:16), and, greedy of gain, succeed in the very schemes which destroy them (1Ti 6:10), not only failing to catch others, but procuring their own destruction.
Habakkuk 1:15
15. they take up all of them—all kinds of fishes, that is, men, as captives, and all other prey that comes in their way.
with the angle—that is, the hook. Some they take up as with the hook, one by one; others in shoals, as in a "net" and "drag" or enclosing net. therefore—because of their successes. they rejoice—They glory in their crimes because attended with success (compare Hab 1:11).
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