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Whoever flatters a neighbor
    is spreading a net for the neighbor’s feet.

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To flatter friends
    is to lay a trap for their feet.

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24 To be a partner of a thief is to hate one’s own life;
    one hears the victim’s curse but discloses nothing.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 29.24 Meaning of Heb uncertain

24 If you assist a thief, you only hurt yourself.
    You are sworn to tell the truth, but you dare not testify.

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