Proverbs 29:6
In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
In Context
5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.
Cross References
Job 18:7The steps of his strength shall be restricted, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Psalms 11:6He will rain snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalms 118:15The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. The right hand of LORD does valiantly.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take a wicked man, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
Proverbs 11:5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 9:12For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:6
5 A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. Those may be said to flatter their neighbours who commend and applaud that good in them (the good they do or the good they have) which really either is not or is not such as they represent it, and who profess that esteem and that affection for them which really they have not; these spread a net for their feet. 1. For their neighbours' feet, whom they flatter. They have an ill design in it; they would not praise them as they do but that they hope… Read the whole commentary →