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# flatters his neighbor
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knowingly tells his neighbor things that are not true so that the neighbor will do what the speaker wants him to do
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# spreading a net for his feet
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The writer compares the flattery of a person to setting that person up to being caught in a trap. AT: "setting a trap to catch that person" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# In the sin of an evil person is a trap
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When an evil person sins, it is as if he is stepping into a trap. He desires to do evil to other people, but God will use what he does to punish him. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]]) |