5A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
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He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5)Those may be said to flatter their neighbours who commend and applaud that good in them (the good they do or the good they have) which really either is not or is not such as they represent it, and who profess that esteem and that affection for them which really they have not; these spread a net for their feet . 1. For their neighbours’ feet, whom they flatter . They have an ill design in it; they…
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