Proverbs 16:29
A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.
In Context
28A perverse man spreads dissension, and a gossip divides close friends.
30He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:11Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
1 Samuel 22:7Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
Nehemiah 6:13He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would sin by doing as he suggested, so they could give me a bad name in order to discredit me.
Proverbs 2:12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
Proverbs 12:26A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 16:28-29
27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire. 28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. There are those that are not only vicious themselves, but spiteful and mischievous to others, and they are the worst of men; two sorts of such are here described:—1. Such as envy a man the honour of his good name, and do all they can to blast that by calumnies and misrepresentations: They dig up evil; they take a great deal of pains to find out something or other… Read the whole commentary →