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

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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,[c](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:1 Or friend
  2. Proverbs 6:1 Lit or shaken hands for or with
  3. Proverbs 6:1 The Hb word for stranger can refer to a foreigner, an Israelite outside one’s family, or simply to another person.

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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29 A violent man lures his neighbor,(A)
leading him in a way that is not good.(B)

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

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:10 Or favor

17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house;
otherwise, he’ll get sick 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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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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