Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
A man making smooth against his neighbor spreads a net for his steps.
New American Standard Bible
Is spreading a net for his steps.
King James Version
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
Holman Bible
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.
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
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 29:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
4 A king in judgment shall establish the land: and a man of presents shall overthrow it 5 A man making smooth against his neighbor spreads a net for his steps. 6 In the transgression of an evil man is a snare: and the just one shall rejoice and be glad:
Cross References
Psalm 5:9
Not steadfast in his mouth; the midst of them mischiefs; their throat a grave opened; they will be smooth with their tongue,
Psalm 12:2
They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak
2 Samuel 14:17-24
And thy servant will say, Now will the word of my lord the king be for a sacrifice, for as a messenger of God, so my lord the king to hear the good and the evil: and Jehovah thy God will be with thee.
Job 17:5
He will commence evils for a position, and the eyes of his sons shall be consumed.
Proverbs 1:17
For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing.
Proverbs 7:5
To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.
Proverbs 7:21
With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.
Proverbs 20:19
He revealing a secret going about tale-bearing: and thou shalt not intermingle with him embracing his lips.
Proverbs 26:24-25
He hating will be known by his lips, and he will set deceit in his midst;
Proverbs 26:28
A tongue of falsehood will hate its crushing, and a smooth mouth will make an overthrow.
Lamentations 1:13
From height he sent fire into my bones, and it brought them down: he spread a net for my feet, he turned me away behind: he gave me desolation, being sad all the day.
Hosea 5:1
Hear this ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, and give ear, ye house of the king; for the judgment is to you, because ye were a snare to the watch tower and a net stretched out upon Tabor.
Luke 20:20-21
And having observed narrowly, they sent liers-in-wait, feigning themselves to be just, that they might seize upon his word, to deliver him to the beginning and authority of the leader.
Romans 16:18
For such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by specious language and praise completely deceive the hearts of the innocent.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither once in word were we flatterers, as ye know, neither in a pretext of covetousness; God the witness: