17 The word שְׂבָכָה (sévakhah) is used in scripture for the lattice window (2 Kgs 1:2). The Arabic cognate means “to be intertwined.” So the term could describe a net, matting, grating, or lattice. Here it would be the netting stretched over a pit.
18 This word פָּח (pakh) specifically refers to the snare of the fowler—thus a bird trap. But its plural seems to refer to nets in general (see Job 22:10).
19 This word does not occur elsewhere. But another word from the same root means “plait of hair,” and so this term has something to do with a net like a trellis or lattice.
20 Heb “his rope.” The suffix must be a genitive expressing that the trap was for him, to trap him, and so an objective genitive.
21 Heb “his trap.” The pronominal suffix is objective genitive here as well.

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In other versions

For he is cast into a net by his own feet,

and he walks on its mesh.

A trap seizes him by the heel;

a snare lays hold of him.

A rope is hidden for him in the ground,

a trap for him in the path.

His feet thrust him into a net;

he wanders into its mesh.

A trap seizes him by the heel;

a snare holds him fast.

A noose is hidden for him on the ground;

a trap lies in his path.

For his own feet lead him into a net,

and he strays into its mesh.

A trap catches him by the heel;

a noose seizes him.

A rope lies hidden for him on the ground,

and a snare waits for him along the path.

The wicked walk into a net.

They fall into a pit.

A trap grabs them by the heel.

A snare holds them tight.

A noose lies hidden on the ground.

A rope is stretched across their path.

for he is thrust into a net by his feet,

and he walks into a pitfall.

A trap seizes him by the heel;

a snare takes hold of him.

His rope is hidden in the ground,

and his trap on the path.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet,

And he walketh upon a snare.

The gin shall take him by the heel,

And the robber shall prevail against him.

The snare is laid for him in the ground,

And a trap for him in the way.

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