Parallel Verses
World English Bible
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
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.
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.
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 The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down. 5 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. 6 An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.
Cross References
Psalm 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Psalm 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
2 Samuel 14:17-24
Then your handmaid said, 'Please 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 bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.'"
Job 17:5
He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
Proverbs 1:17
For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
Proverbs 7:5
that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Proverbs 7:21
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
Proverbs 20:19
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don't keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
Proverbs 26:24-25
A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Lamentations 1:13
From on high has he 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 faint all the day.
Hosea 5:1
"Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
Luke 20:20-21
They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
Romans 16:18
For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),