Proverbs 3:29
Evangelical Heritage Version
29 Do not plan harm against your neighbor
when he is living with you peacefully.
Proverbs 3:29
Lexham English Bible
29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor
who dwells in confidence beside you.
Proverbs 6:1
Evangelical Heritage Version
Eighth Address to a Son:
Wisdom Avoids Entanglements
6 My son, if you have guaranteed your neighbor’s debts,
if you have shaken hands for a stranger,
Proverbs 6:1
Lexham English Bible
Against Pledges
6 My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor,
if you have bound yourself[a] to the stranger,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:1 Literally “palms of your hands”
Proverbs 6:3
Evangelical Heritage Version
3 Because you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands,
go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
Proverbs 6:3
Lexham English Bible
3 do this, then, my child, and save yourself,
for you have come into the palm of your neighbor’s hand:[a]
Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:3 Literally “the palm of the hand of your neighbor”
Proverbs 16:29
Evangelical Heritage Version
29 A violent man entices his neighbor.
He leads him on a way that is not good.
Proverbs 16:29
Lexham English Bible
29 A person of violence will entice his neighbor
and cause him to walk on a way that is not good.
Proverbs 21:10
Evangelical Heritage Version
10 The soul of a wicked person craves evil.
He does not look on his neighbor with mercy.
Proverbs 21:10
Lexham English Bible
10 The soul[a] of the wicked desires evil;
his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 21:10 Or “soul, life, throat”
Proverbs 25:17
Evangelical Heritage Version
17 Do not set foot in your neighbor’s house too often.
If you do, he will have too much of you and hate you.
Proverbs 25:17
Lexham English Bible
17 Make your foot scarce in the house of your neighbor,
lest he become weary of you and hate you.
Proverbs 27:10
Evangelical Heritage Version
10 Do not abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
and do not go to your brother’s house when disaster strikes you.
A neighbor who is near is better than a brother who is far away.
Proverbs 27:10
Lexham English Bible
10 As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them,
and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity.
Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.
Proverbs 27:14
Evangelical Heritage Version
14 When someone blesses his neighbor in a loud voice early in the morning,
it will be regarded as a curse.
Proverbs 27:14
Lexham English Bible
14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice
early in the morning,
a curse will be reckoned to him.
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