29 Don’t plan any harm against your neighbor,(A)
for he trusts you and lives near you.

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29 Do not plan harm against your neighbor
    who lives trustingly beside you.(A)

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Financial Entanglements

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor[a]
or entered into an agreement with[b] a stranger,(A)

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  1. 6:1 Or friend
  2. 6:1 Lit or slapped hands for

Practical Admonitions

My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
    if you have bound yourself to another,[a](A)

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  1. 6.1 Or a stranger

Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,
for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:
Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.

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So do this, my child, and save yourself,
    for you have come into your neighbor’s power:
    go, hurry,[a] and plead with your neighbor.

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  1. 6.3 Or humble yourself

29 A violent person lures his neighbor,(A)
leading him on a path that is not good.(B)

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29 The violent entice their neighbors
    and lead them in a way that is not good.(A)

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10 A wicked person desires evil;
he has no consideration[a] for his neighbor.(A)

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  1. 21:10 Or favor

10 The souls of the wicked desire evil;
    their neighbors find no mercy in their eyes.(A)

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17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house;
otherwise, he’ll get sick of you and hate you.

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

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10 Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,(A)
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.(B)

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10 Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent;
    do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is nearby
    than kindred who are far away.(A)

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14 If one blesses his neighbor
with a loud voice early in the morning,
it will be counted as a curse to him.

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

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