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5 A man who flattereth his neighbour
Spreadeth a net for his steps.
Fleischer, as Bertheau: vir qui alterum blanditiis circumvenit; but in the עַל there does not lie in itself a hostile tendency, an intention to do injury; it interchanges with אֶל, Psa 36:3, and what is expressed in line second happens also, without any intention on the part of the flatterer: the web of the flatterer before the eyes of a neighbour becomes, if he is caught thereby, a net for him in which he is entangled to his own destruction (Hitzig). הֶֽחֱלִיק signifies also, without any external object, Pro 28:23; Pro 2:16, as internally transitive: to utter that which is smooth, i.e., flattering. פְּעָמָיו is, as Psa 57:7 = רַגְלָיו, for which it is the usual Phoenician word.