27 (A)Do not withhold good from [a]those to whom it is due,
When it is in your power to do it.
28 (B)Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come back,
And tomorrow I will give it to you,”
When you have it with you.
29 (C)Do not devise harm against your neighbor,
While he lives securely beside you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:27 Lit its owners

27 Do not withhold good from its owner[a]
    when it is in the power of your hand to do.
28 Do not say to your neighbor,
    “Go and return and tomorrow I will give it,”
    when it is with you.[b]
29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor
    who dwells in confidence beside you.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:27 Or “lord”
  2. Proverbs 3:28 Literally “and there is with you”