Proverbs 29:5
He that prepares a net in the way of his own friend, entangles his own feet in it.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
In Context
4A righteous king establishes a country: but a transgressor destroys it.
6A great snare is spread for a sinner: but the righteous shall be in joy and gladness.
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:17And the woman said, If now the word of my lord the king be gracious,— well: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, to hear good and evil: and the Lord thy God shall be with thee.
Psalms 5:9Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make my way plain before thy face.
Proverbs 1:17for nets are not without cause spread for birds.
Proverbs 7:21So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips she forced him from the right path.
Proverbs 26:24A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips, but in his heart he contrives deceit.
Lamentations 1:13Mem. He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, he has brought it into my bones: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and mourning all the day.
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 →