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29 Do not plan harm against your neighbor
    when he is living with you peacefully.

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

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Eighth Address to a Son:
Wisdom Avoids Entanglements

My son, if you have guaranteed your neighbor’s debts,
if you have shaken hands for a stranger,

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Against Pledges

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

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Footnotes

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

Because you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands,
go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.

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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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Footnotes

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

29 A violent man entices his neighbor.
He leads him on 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 a wicked person craves evil.
He does not look on his neighbor with mercy.

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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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Footnotes

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

17 Do not set foot in your neighbor’s house too often.
If you do, he will have too much of you and hate you.

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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 Do not abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
and do not go to your brother’s house when disaster strikes you.
A neighbor who is near is better than a brother who is far away.

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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 When someone blesses his neighbor in a loud voice early in the morning,
    it will be regarded as a curse.

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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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