* The proud.
   This metaphor is taken from the mode in which wild beasts are
   caught in the East:  deep pits are dug in the earth, and
   slightly covered over with reeds, turf, etc., so as not to be
   discerned from the solid ground; and the animals attempting to
   walk over them, the surface breaks, they fall in, and are
   taken alive.  Thus the Psalmist's enemies employed craft as
   well as power in order to effect his ruin.

  78  7:15  35:7  36:11  Pr 16:27  Jer 18:20 
 * which.
  58:1,2