Proverbs 29:5
A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
In Context
4A just king setteth up the land: a covetous man shall destroy it.
6A snare shall entangle the wicked man when he sinneth: and the just shall praise and rejoice.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:17Then let thy handmaid say, that the word of the Lord the king be made as a sacrifice. For even as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, that he is neither moved with blessing nor cursing: wherefore the Lord thy God is also with thee.
Psalms 5:9Conduct me, O Lord, in thy justice: because of my enemies, direct my way in thy sight.
Proverbs 1:17But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
Proverbs 7:21She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
Proverbs 26:24An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit.
Lamentations 1:13Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the 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 →