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29 Don’t plot harm against your neighbor,
    for those who live nearby trust you.

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29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor,
    who lives trustfully near you.(A)

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Lessons for Daily Life

My child,[a] if you have put up security for a friend’s debt
    or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger—

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Footnotes

  1. 6:1 Hebrew My son.

Warnings Against Folly

My son,(A) if you have put up security(B) for your neighbor,(C)
    if you have shaken hands in pledge(D) for a stranger,

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follow my advice and save yourself,
    for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy.
Now swallow your pride;
    go and beg to have your name erased.

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So do this, my son, to free yourself,
    since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
Go—to the point of exhaustion—[a]
    and give your neighbor no rest!

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Or Go and humble yourself,

29 Violent people mislead their companions,
    leading them down a harmful path.

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29 A violent person entices their neighbor
    and leads them down a path that is not good.(A)

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10 Evil people desire evil;
    their neighbors get no mercy from them.

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10 The wicked crave evil;
    their neighbors get no mercy from them.

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17 Don’t visit your neighbors too often,
    or you will wear out your welcome.

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17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house—
    too much of you, and they will hate you.

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10 Never abandon a friend—
    either yours or your father’s.
When disaster strikes, you won’t have to ask your brother for assistance.
    It’s better to go to a neighbor than to a brother who lives far away.

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10 Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
    and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster(A) strikes you—
    better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.

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14 A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning
    will be taken as a curse!

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14 If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning,
    it will be taken as a curse.

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