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29 Do not plan evil against your neighbor
    who dwells trustingly beside you.

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Practical Admonitions

My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor,
    have given your pledge for a stranger;

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then do this, my son, and save yourself,
    for you have come into your neighbor’s power:
    go, hasten,[a] and importune your neighbor.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Or humble yourself

29 A man of violence entices his neighbor
    and leads him in a way that is not good.

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

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17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house,
    lest he become weary of you and hate you.

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10 Your friend, and your father’s friend, do not forsake;
    and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is near
    than a brother who is far away.

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14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice,
    rising early in the morning,
    will be counted as cursing.

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