During ground warfare, one of the types of devices used by the enemy are small but deadly land mines hidden slightly under the ground but sometimes slightly exposed on top, designed to be trigger-detonated by soldiers stepping on them unawares or accidentally.

Some of those land mines do not detonate immediately upon being stepped on, but instead explode when soldiers step off them after stepping on them.

Not only with military-armament combat, but in many other morally-related applications, Biblical principles of avoiding even lethal harm (not simply from land mines but also even possible fatal injuries caused by tripping over trap wires, slipping on ice hidden by snow, falling into pits covered with brush, springing steel animal traps, falling into loose rock crevices, and so forth) . . . can be consistently utilized by the vigilant who are careful to never be careless nor pompously presume what should not be presumed.

There are other safety precautions available and used which preserve and protect the lives of soldiers who manage to survive hostile confrontations, and they are a well-timed discretionary alteration between being overt and covert, attack and retreat, aggressive assaulting and hiding, being wisely offensive when need be, but also defensive when circumstances require that.

For example, the prudent soldier hides behind a rock or suitable barrier when shot at, then cautiously with alert calmness aims his shots with precision accuracy if then as he detects such can successfully be accomplished without return harm to himself -- rather than arrogantly exposing or even flaunting himself into a rather-predictable easy-target flurry of bullets from opponents while wasting his ammunition (until struck down) in a mostly-miss-and-not-hit wild rage.

The righteous soldier - no matter who is adversary is, and no matter what stumbling blocks of whatever types are planted against him by whoever - reads and remembers much of the following admonitions and advice:

Genesis 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path [ or landmine in the field ], that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward.

The following verse sounds like what happens sometimes during a checkers game, or an ambush:

Numbers 22:24 Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.
24 Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.
25 And when the mule saw the angel of the LORD, she pushed against the wall, and pressed Balaam's foot against the wall; so he struck her again.
26 Then the angel of the LORD went ahead, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.
27 When the mule saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the mule with his staff.

Leviticus 19:14 You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block [ land-mine grenade ] before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

Deuteronomy 33:3 Yes, He loved his people [ army soldiers ] ; all those consecrated [ in his battalion unit ] to Him were in His hand; so they followed in your [ pre-tested ] steps [ avoiding the previously-placed landmines ], receiving direction [ military-command orders ] from you.

Second Samuel 22:37 You did give a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip [ onto a hidden landmine ].

Job 4:4 Your [ informative landmine-avoidance ] words have upheld him who was stumbling [ almost triggering a hidden landmine ], and you have made firm the feeble [ do not drop on the ground where the landmine is now ] knees.
18:12 His strength is hunger-bitten, and [ blown-to-bits-by-a-buried-land-mine ] calamity is ready for his stumbling.
18:10 A [ trigger-device ] rope is hid for him in the ground, a [ landmine ] trap for him in the path.
28:7 That [ landmine-laden ] path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon's eye has not seen it.
30:13 They break up my path [ with landmine explosives ], they promote my [ blown-to-smithereens ] calamity; no one restrains them.
8:13 Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless man [ or careless soldier ] shall perish.
13:27 You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths; you set a bound for the soles of my [ army-booted ] feet.
14:16 For then you would number my steps, you would not keep watch over my sin;
18:7 His strong steps are shortened [ by him stepping on a landmine and being blown to kingdom come ] and his own schemes [ of accidentally self-detonating his own landmine ] throw him down.
19:8 He has walled up my way [ with hidden landmines all over the place ], so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
23:11 My foot has held fast to His [ avoiding-the-hidden-landmines ] steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
24:13 There are those who rebel against the [ landmines-illuminating ] light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.

Psalm 16:11 You do show me the [ step-away-from-the-landmines ] path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy, in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
17:5 My steps have held fast to your [ diversion-away-from-buried-landmines ] paths, my feet have not slipped.
18:36 You did give a wide place for my [ trot-around-the-landmines ] steps under me, and my feet did not slip.
23:3 He restores my soul. He leads me in [ miss-the-buried-landmines ] paths of [ non-injury ] righteousness for His name's sake.
25:4 Make me to know your [ hidden-landmine-detecting ] ways, LORD; teach me your [ step-between-the-landmines ] paths.
25:10 All the paths of the LORD are [ life-support ] continuous love and faithfulness, for those who mind His [ follow-in-His-miss-the-landmines ] covenant and His [ buried-landmines-location-report ] testimonies.
37:23 The [ watch-out-for-landmines ] steps of a man are from the LORD, and He establishes him in whose way He delights
37:31 The [ techniques-of-detecting-and-avoiding-landmines ] law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip. 40:2 He drew me up from the [ quicksand ] and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
44:18 [ This platoon's ] heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your [ landmines-deactivating ] way
56:6 They band themselves together, they lurk, they watch my steps. As they have waited for my life
57:6 They set a [ random-placement-of-buried-landmines ] net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves.
78:50 He made a [ landmines-strewn ] path for His anger; He did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague [ of exploding landmines ].
116:8 For you have delivered my soul from [ blown-apart-to-bloody-shreds ] death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling
119:35 Lead me in the path of your [ stay-off-the-buried-landmines ] commandments, for I delight in it.
119:105 Your word is a [ see-the-hidden-landmines ] lamp to my feet and a [ expose-the-buried-landmines ] light to my [ stay-safe-away-from-bloody-dismemberment ] path.
119:128 Therefore I direct my [ landmines-sidestepping ] steps by all your [ military-manual ] precepts; I hate every false way.
119:133 Keep steady my steps according to your [ march-where-I-order-you-to-and-live ] promise, and let no [ walk-wherever-I-want-in-the-field-of-landmines ] iniquity get dominion over me.
142:3 When my spirit is faint, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a [ booby ] trap for me. 143:10 Teach me to do your [carefully-pre-detect-landmines ] will, for you are my God! Let your good spirit lead me on a level path!

Proverbs 1:15 my son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their paths
2:8 [ Good-commanding-officers-savvy-concerning-landmines ] guarding the paths of [ good-soldiers-should-conquer ] justice and preserving the way of his [ keep-your-body-parts-together ] saints.
Pr 2:9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path
2:13 [ In contrast to arrogantly-indifferent-and-careless-soldiers ] who reject the [ landmines-avoiding ] paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness
2:15 . . . whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
2:20 So you will walk in the way of good [ solders ] and keep to the paths of the [ destined-to-conquer-the-enemy ] righteous.
3:6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your [ landmines-neutralized ] paths.
4:11 I have taught you the way of [ landmines-awareness ] wisdom; I have led you in the paths of [ booby-traps-bypassing ] uprightness.
4:11 I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
4:14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.
4:18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
4:26 Take heed to the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.
8:20 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice
10:17 He who heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof goes astray.
12:28 In the path of righteousness is life, but the way of error leads to death.
15:19 The way of a sluggard is overgrown with [ landmine ] thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.
15:24 The wise man's path leads upward to life, that he may avoid [ landmines-escort-to ] Sheol beneath.
16:9 A man's mind plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.
20:24 A man's steps are ordered by the LORD; how then can man understand his way?

Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil.

Isaiah 2:3 and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us His [ indecent-exposure-landmines-avoiding ] ways and that we may walk in His [ sexual-purity-warfare-survival ] paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the [ beware-of-immodest-female-human-landmines ] law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
3:12 My people: children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your [ feminist-sexist-pandering ] leaders mislead you, and confuse the course of your paths.
8:14 And He will become a sanctuary, and a stone of offense, and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 26:6 The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.
Isaiah 26:7 The way of the righteous is level; you do make smooth the path of the righteous.
Isaiah 26:8 In the path of your judgments, LORD, we wait for you; your memorial name is the desire of our soul.

Isaiah 30:9 For they are a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the LORD
10 who say to the seers, "See not"; and to the prophets, "Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,
11 leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel."
12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and [ immodest sexual ] perverseness, and rely on them;
13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant [ like a exploding landmine full of shrapnel ];
14 and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
17 A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.

Isaiah 40:14 Whom did He consult for His enlightenment, and who taught Him the path of justice, and taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding?
41:3 He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.
42:16 And I will lead the blind in a way that they know not, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.
59:8 The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked, no one who goes in them knows peace.

Jeremiah 6:21 Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Hey, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.'"
6:16 Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient [ landmine-free ] paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'
10:23 I know, LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
23:12 Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall; for I will bring evil upon them in the year of their punishment, says the LORD.
31:9 With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

Ezekiel 3:20 Again, if a righteous man/woman turns from his/her righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him/her, he/she shall die; because you have not warned him/her [ whether or not that is slanderously miscalled "spam" ] he/she shall die for his/her sin, and his/her righteous deeds which he/she has done shall not be remembered; but his/her blood I will require at your hand.
Ezekiel 14:3 "Son of man, these men have taken their [ R-to-XXX ] idols into their hearts, and set the [ incessantly-repetitious warm-weather-public-immodesty ] stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces; should I let myself be inquired of at all by them?
Ezekiel 14:4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any man or woman of the house of Israel who takes his or her [ mopheaded/sleevesless/slacksless/soxless-in-heteropublic-view ] idols into his or her heart and sets the stumbling block of his or her iniquity before his or her face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him or her myself because of the multitude of his or her idols
Ezekiel 14:7 For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who travels in Israel (or the United States), who separates himself or herself from me, taking his or her [ mopheaded/sleevesless/slacksless/soxless-in-heteropublic-view ] idols into his or her heart and putting the stumbling block of his or her iniquity before his or her face, and yet comes to a prophet to inquire for himself or herself of me, I the LORD will answer him or her myself
Ezekiel 44:12 Because they ministered to them before their [ porno-immodest ] idols and became a [ luridly-lewd landmines-like ] stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel (and America), therefore I have sworn concerning (and not regarding) them," says the Lord GOD, "that they shall bear their punishment."

Lamentations 3:9 He has blocked my ways with [ landmine-similar ] hewn stones, he has made my paths [ to avoid stepping on landmines ] crooked.

Micah 4:2 and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us His ways and we may walk in His [ Biblical-modesty-directives ] paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the [ chignons/long-sleeves/long-slacks/skirt/sox-with-shoes-for-female-humans ] law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Habakkuk 3:16 I hear, and my body trembles, my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones, my [ total-female-modesty-in-general-public-view-loving ] steps totter beneath me. I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon [ public-immodesty-promoting ] people who [ licentiously and lasciviously ] invade us [ with longer-than-mouth-level loose long hair, naked sleevesless arms, nude slacksless legs, and soxless feet in sandals ].

Matthew 3:3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one proclaiming in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the Lord, make His [ consistent-modesty-of-women-during-warm-weather ] paths straight."

Mark 1:3 the voice of one proclaim in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make His [ consistent-modesty-of-women-during-warm-weather ] paths straight."

Luke 3:4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, "The voice of one proclaiming in the wilderness: "Prepare the way of the Lord, make His [ consistent-modesty-of-women-during-warm-weather ] paths straight."

John 5:7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is troubled, and while I am going another steps down before me [ without stepping on any explosive Roman landmines along the way ]."

Acts 13:10 . . . "You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight [ consistent-modesty-of-women-during-warm-weather ] paths of the Lord?"
Acts 21:35 And when he came to the steps, he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd [ which is one way to be lifted up out of danger, like by helicopter, over a field of landmines ]

Romans 3:16 in their [ landmines-planted ] paths are ruin and misery,
Romans 9:32 Why? Because they did not pursue it through faith, but as if it were based on [ how-can-I-get-a-man-to-have-sex-with-me-if-I-do-not-sadistically-titillate-him-with-immodesty ] works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone
Romans 14:13 Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather decide never to put a [ landmine-like loose-long-haired/nude-armed/naked-legs/soxlessness-in-flipflops ] stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a [ sensuously-excitable ] brother.

First Corinthians 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, a [ God-will-provide-a-spouse-without-imposing-immodesty-of-attire ] stumbling block to Jews and [ get-a-potential-spouses-attention-and-admiration-by-always-modest-public-clothing ] folly to Gentiles,
First Corinthians 8:9 Only take care lest this [ I-selfishly-don't-care-how-I-am-immodestly-misdressed ] liberty of yours somehow become a [ non-modest mopheaded/naked-armed/nude-legged/soxless-footed landmine-similar ] stumbling block to the weak.

Second Corinthians 12:18 I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same [ general-public-view-modest-attire-of-women-advocating ] steps?

Galatians 5:11 But if I, brethren, still preach [ non-free-spirit-enslavement-to-glamor-girl-immodest ] circumcision, why am I still persecuted? In that case the [ consistently-decent-female-human-attire ] stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

Hebrews 12:13 and make straight [ chignoned/long-sleeved/long-pants/sox-with-shoes ] paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

First John 2:10 He who loves his [ sexually-arousable erotically-sensitive ] brother remains in the light, and in it there is no cause for [ non-solicited warm-weather-immodest sexual-harassment-and-visual-assault ] stumbling.

Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a [ landmine-reminiscent ] stumbling block before the sons of Israel, that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice [ KingGooch/Tumblr-porngifs ] immorality.