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The picture of the רָשָׁע, who is become as it were a beast of prey, is now worked out further. The lustrum of the lion is called סֹךְ Jer 25:38, or סֻכָּה Job 38:40 : a thicket, from סָכַךְ, which means both to interweave and to plait over = to cover (without any connection with שׂךְ a thorn, Arab. shôk, a thistle). The figure of the lion is reversed in the second line, the עָנִי himself being compared to the beast of prey and the רָשָׁע to a hunter who drives him into the pit-fall and when he has fallen in hastens to drag him away (מָשַׁךְ, as in Psa 28:3; Job 24:22) in, or by means of (Hos 11:4, Job 41:1), his net, in which he has become entangled.