Proverbs 29:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

Proverbs 29:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 2:26
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Job 18:7-10
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. …
Exodus 15:1
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Psalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Topics

Depravity of Man Gladness Guilt Happiness Joy Laughter Peace Pleasure

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6)

Here is, 1. The peril of a sinful way. There is not only a punishment at the end of it, but a snare in it. One sin is a temptation to another, and there are troubles which, as a snare, come suddenly upon evil men in the midst of their transgressions; nay, their transgression itself often involves them in vexations; their sin is their punishment, and they are holden in the cords of their own iniqui…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. In--or, “By” the transgression--he is brought into difficulty (Pr 12:13), but the righteous go on prospering, and so sing or rejoice.