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29 (A)Do not devise [a]harm against your neighbor,
While he lives securely beside you.

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  1. Proverbs 3:29 Lit evil

29 (A)Do not devise harm against your neighbor,
While he lives securely beside you.

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Practical Warnings

My son, if you have become a (A)guarantor for your neighbor,
Have struck your [a]hands in pledge for a stranger,

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  1. Proverbs 6:1 Lit palms

Parental Counsel

My son, if you have become (A)surety for your neighbor,
Have [a]given a pledge for a stranger,

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  1. Proverbs 6:1 Lit clapped your palms

Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself;
Since you have come into the [a]hand of your neighbor,
Go, humble yourself, and badger your neighbor.

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  1. Proverbs 6:3 Lit palm

Do this then, my son, and deliver yourself;
Since you have come into the [a]hand of your neighbor,
Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor.

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  1. Proverbs 6:3 Lit palm

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

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

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10 The soul of the wicked craves evil;
His (A)neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

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10 The soul of the wicked desires evil;
His (A)neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.

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17 Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house,
Lest he have more than his fill of you and hate you.

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17 Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house,
Or he will become [a]weary of you and hate you.

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  1. Proverbs 25:17 Lit surfeited with

10 Do not forsake your (A)friend or (B)your father’s friend,
And do not come to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster;
Better is one who dwells near than a brother far away.

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10 Do not forsake your own (A)friend or (B)your father’s friend,
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 far away.

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14 (A)He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be counted as a curse to him.

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14 (A)He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be reckoned a curse to him.

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