"Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe." ~Proverbs 29:25, NIV
One of my favorite things about the Proverbs is that you don't need as much context (in most verses) for them to make perfect sense. The context for me is often more confusing in the Proverbs, since they don't always seem to follow a rhyme or reason. Regardless, it's pretty simple to sum up the above verse.
A snare is a trap; it catches you and suspends you from doing anything and often times also hurts you. Fearing humans - literally being afraid or "respecting" them to the point where you have no opinion - is one such a trap. For one, humans will always let you down, eventually. For two, they're not always right, and living your life in accordance to them is dangerous in that respect.
But God is a different matter, He will never let you down (unless you expect something of Him that He doesn't intend to do, and He only ever intends to fulfill His perfect plan to love you), He will never let you go, He wrote the difference between right and wrong and He is the opposite of sin. He is a safe person to trust your heart to, your possessions to, your life to, because He loves you so much that He will only ever do what needs to be done to make you an incredible person.
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