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Selected Verse: Proverbs 29:5 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 29:5 |
King James |
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Compare Pro 26:28).
spreadeth . . . feet--By misleading him as to his real character, the flatterer brings him to evil, prepared by himself or others. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
5 A man who flattereth his neighbour
Spreadeth a net for his steps.
Fleischer, as Bertheau: vir qui alterum blanditiis circumvenit; but in the על there does not lie in itself a hostile tendency, an intention to do injury; it interchanges with אל, Psa 36:3, and what is expressed in line second happens also, without any intention on the part of the flatterer: the web of the flatterer before the eyes of a neighbour becomes, if he is caught thereby, a net for him in which he is entangled to his own destruction (Hitzig). החליק signifies also, without any external object, Pro 28:23; Pro 2:16, as internally transitive: to utter that which is smooth, i.e., flattering. פּעמיו is, as Psa 57:7 = רגליו, for which it is the usual Phoenician word. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Spreadeth a net for his feet - Beware of a flatterer; he does not flatter merely to please you, but to deceive you and profit himself. |
28 A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.