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29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
    seeing he dwells securely by you.

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

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Warning Against Pledges

My son, if you put up a security for your friend,
    if you have shaken hands with a stranger,

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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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Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself;
    when you have come into the hand of your friend,
go and humble yourself;
    plead with your friend.

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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 A violent man entices his neighbor,
    and leads him into the way that is not good.

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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 The soul of the wicked desires evil;
    his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

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

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17 Withdraw your foot from your neighbor’s house,
    lest he be weary of you and so hate you.

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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 Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
    nor go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
    for better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far off.

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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 He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
    it will be counted a curse to him.

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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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