Proverbs 29:6
A snare will entangle the iniquitous when he sins. And the just shall praise and be glad.
Catholic Public Domain 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 speaks to his friend with flattering and feigned words spreads a net for his own feet.
7The just knows the case of the poor. The impious is ignorant of knowledge.
Cross References
Job 18:7His strong steps will be constrained, and his own counsel will cast him down uncontrollably.
Psalms 11:6Because of the misery of the destitute and the groaning of the poor, now I will arise, says the Lord. I will place him in safety. I will act faithfully toward him.
Psalms 118:15I will be trained in your commandments, and I will consider your ways.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
Proverbs 11:5The justice of the simple shall direct his way. And the impious will fall in his impiety.
Ecclesiastes 9:12Man does not know his own end. But, just as fish are caught with a hook, and birds are captured with a snare, so are men seized in the evil time, when it will suddenly overwhelm 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 →