A snare is used to catch animals thus providing a meal. A snare is camouflaged so the animal does not know it is there. A snare means death for the animal.
I like everyone was born with no understanding of how to live in this world. Slowly as I aged my parents, grandparents, friends, and teachers instructed me about life.
Some teaching was wisdom, others were foolish. Some help me mature, and others were adolescent folly. The teaching of the wise was a fountain of life.
The fact that I have to be turned from the snares of death means that my inclination is to step into the hidden snare of death. The human natural tendency is self-destruction. For me, the teaching of Jesus, the apostles, and the prophets has been the teaching of the wise.
