Proverbs 29:6
A great snare is spread for a sinner: but the righteous shall be in joy and gladness.
Brenton Septuagint
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
5He that prepares a net in the way of his own friend, entangles his own feet in it.
Cross References
Job 18:7Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive him.
Psalms 11:6Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord, I will set them in safety; I will speak to them thereof openly.
Psalms 118:15I will meditate on thy commandments, and consider thy ways.
Proverbs 5:22Iniquities ensnare a man, and every one is bound in the chains of his own sins.
Proverbs 11:5Righteousness + 11:5 Gr. right divides.traces out blameless paths: but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing.
Ecclesiastes 9:12For surely man also knows not his time: as fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as birds that are caught in a snare; even thus the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it falls suddenly 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 →