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29 Devise not evil against thy neighbor,
Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

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29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor
    who dwells in confidence beside you.

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My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor,
If thou hast stricken [a]thy hands for a stranger;

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  1. Proverbs 6:1 Or, thy hand with a stranger

Against Pledges

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor,
    if you have bound yourself[a] to the stranger,

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  1. Proverbs 6:1 Literally “palms of your hands”

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself,
Seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbor:
Go, [a]humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor;

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  1. Proverbs 6:3 Or, bestir

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.

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  1. Proverbs 6:3 Literally “the palm of the hand of your neighbor”

29 A man of violence enticeth his neighbor,
And leadeth him in a way that is not good.

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29 A person of violence will entice his neighbor
    and cause him to walk on a way that is not good.

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10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil:
His neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes.

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10 The soul[a] of the wicked desires evil;
    his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes.

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  1. Proverbs 21:10 Or “soul, life, throat”

17 Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor’s house,
Lest he be [a]weary of thee, and hate thee.

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  1. Proverbs 25:17 Hebrew full of thee.

17 Make your foot scarce in the house of your neighbor,
    lest he become weary of you and hate you.

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10 Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not;
And go not to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity:
Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

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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.

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14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
It shall be counted a curse to him.

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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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