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29 Don’t plan to harm your neighbor
    who trusts and lives near you.

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Wise advice

My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor
    or shake hands in agreement with a stranger,

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Do this, my son, to get out of it,
    for you have come under the control of your neighbor.
    So go, humble yourself,[a] and pester your neighbor.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Heb uncertain

29 Violent people entice their neighbors
    and walk them down a path that isn’t good.

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10 Wicked people desire evil;
    their neighbors receive no mercy from them.

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17 Don’t spend too much time in your neighbor’s house.
    Otherwise, they’ll get fed up with you and hate you.

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10 Don’t desert your friend or a friend of your family;
    don’t go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes.
    Better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.

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14 Greeting a neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning
    will be viewed as a curse.

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