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29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
    seeing he dwells securely by you.

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

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Warning Against Pledges

My son, if you put up a security for your friend,
    if you have shaken hands with 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”

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself;
    when you have come into the hand of your friend,
go and humble yourself;
    plead with your friend.

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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,
    and leads him into the 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 desires evil;
    his neighbor finds 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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Footnotes

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

17 Withdraw your foot from your neighbor’s house,
    lest he be weary of you and so 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 forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
    nor go into your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
    for better is a neighbor who 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 who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
    it will 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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