Proverbs 29:5
A man who speaks to his friend with flattering and feigned words spreads a net for his own feet.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
In Context
4A just king guides the land. A man of avarice will destroy it.
6A snare will entangle the iniquitous when he sins. And the just shall praise and be glad.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:17Therefore, let your handmaid speak, so that the word of my lord the king may be like a sacrifice. For even like an Angel of God, so is my lord the king, so that he is moved by neither a blessing, nor a curse. Then too, the Lord your God is with you.”
Psalms 5:9Lord, lead me in your justice. Because of my enemies, direct my way in your sight.
Proverbs 1:17But a net is thrown in vain before the eyes of those who have wings.
Proverbs 7:21She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips.
Proverbs 26:24An enemy is known by his lips, though it is from his heart that he draws out deceit.
Lamentations 1:13MEM. From on high, he has sent fire into my bones, and he has educated me. He has spread a net for my feet; he has turned me back. He has placed me in desolation, consumed by grief, all day long.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 29:5
4 The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it. Here is, 1. The happiness of a people under a good government. The care and business of a prince should be to establish the land, to maintain its fundamental laws, to settle the minds of his subjects and make them easy, to secure their liberties and properties from hostilities and for posterity, and to set in order the things that are wanting; this he must do by judgment, by wise counsels, and by the steady administration of… Read the whole commentary →