Proverbs 29:6
Evil people will be trapped by the sins that they commit, but righteous/honest people will sing and be joyful/happy.
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
Job 18:7For many years they walked confidently, but later in life it was as though they stumbled and fell, because they themselves did not heed the advice that they gave to others.
Psalms 11:6He will send down from the sky flaming coals and burning sulfur, and send scorching hot winds to punish wicked people.
Psalms 118:15Listen to the joyful songs of victory being sung in the tents of godly/righteous people! They sing, “Yahweh has defeated our enemies by his mighty power [MTY];
Proverbs 5:22Evil men’s sinful desires hold them fast; their sins are like ropes that bind them.
Proverbs 11:5When people are honest and good, that will ◄direct their paths/show them what is right for them to do►; but wicked people will experience disasters because of the evil things that they do.
Ecclesiastes 9:12No one knows when he will die [EUP]; fish are cruelly caught in a net, and birds are caught in snares/traps; similarly [SIM], people experience disasters at times when they do not expect them to happen.
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 →