The Pulpit Commentary on Job 18:9

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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.

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