Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

A man who flatters his neighbor
Is spreading a net for his steps.

King James Version

A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

Holman Bible

A man who flatters his neighbor
spreads a net for his feet.

International Standard Version

A strong man who flatters his neighbor is setting a trap where he walks.

A Conservative Version

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

American Standard Version

A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for his steps.

Amplified


A man who flatters his neighbor [with smooth words intending to do harm]
Is spreading a net for his own feet.

Bible in Basic English

A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.

Darby Translation

A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his steps.

Julia Smith Translation

A man making smooth against his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

King James 2000

A man that flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A strong man who flatters his neighbor is spreading a net for his feet.

Modern King James verseion

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Whoso flattereth his neighbour, layeth a net for his feet.

NET Bible

The one who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.

New Heart English Bible

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

The Emphasized Bible

A man who flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth, a net, over his steps.

Webster

A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.

World English Bible

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Youngs Literal Translation

A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A man
גּבר 
Geber 
Usage: 65

a net
רשׁת 
Resheth 
Usage: 22

References

Fausets

Context Readings

All About Life

4 The king by judgment establishes the land, but he that receives gifts shall overthrow it. 5 A man who flatters his neighbor
Is spreading a net for his steps.
6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare, but the righteous shall sing and rejoice.



Cross References

Psalm 5:9

For there is no uprightness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Psalm 12:2

Each one speaks vanity with his neighbour: they speak with flattering lips and with a double heart.

2 Samuel 14:17-24

Then thy handmaid said, Let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and evil; and let the LORD thy God be with thee.

Job 17:5

He that speaks flattery to his neighbour, even the eyes of his sons shall fail.

Proverbs 1:17

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep thee from the woman belonging to someone else, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

Proverbs 7:21

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she persuaded him.

Proverbs 20:19

He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flatters with his lips.

Proverbs 26:24-25

He that hates dissembles with his lips and lays up deceit within him;

Proverbs 26:28

A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Lamentations 1:13

Mem From upon high he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; he has spread a net for my feet; he has turned me back; he has made me desolate and always with pain.

Hosea 5:1

Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king because the judgment is for you, for ye have been a snare in Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor.

Luke 20:20-21

And they watched him and sent forth spies who feigned themselves just men that they might take hold of him as he was speaking, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

Romans 16:18

For they that are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly and by smooth words and blessings deceive the hearts of the simple.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For we were never flatterers in the word, as ye know, nor tainted with covetousness, God is witness,

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