Quotes about Peril

But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.

By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.

She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them.