Proverbs 29:5

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Job 17:5

He who speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children will fail.

Psalm 12:2

They speak empty words, each with his own neighbor; with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.

Psalm 36:2

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, so that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.

Psalm 5:9

For there is no uprightness in their mouth; destruction is in their midst; their throat is an open tomb; they flatter with their tongue.

Proverbs 1:17

Surely, in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird;

Proverbs 20:19

He who goes about as a slanderer betrays secrets; therefore associate not with the babbler.

Proverbs 26:28

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

Proverbs 28:23

He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

Proverbs 7:21

With her enticing speech she led him astray; with her flattering lips she seduced him.

Proverbs 7:5

that they may keep you from an adulteress, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Lamentations 1:13

From on high He has sent fire into my bones, and it prevailed against them; He has spread a net for my feet; He turned me back; He has made me desolate and faint all the day long.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you, because you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread over Tabor,

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own appetites, and through smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time did we come with flattering words, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed. God is our witness.

1 Samuel 18:23

So the servants of Saul spoke these words in the ears of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king’s son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?”