Proverbs 29:6
A snare shall entangle the wicked man when he sinneth: and the just shall praise and rejoice.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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
7The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge.
Cross References
Job 18:7The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong.
Psalms 11:6By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.
Psalms 118:15I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.
Proverbs 11:5The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.
Ecclesiastes 9:12Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come 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 →