Proverbs 3:29
Modern English Version
29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
seeing he dwells securely by you.
Proverbs 3:29
Lexham English Bible
29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor
who dwells in confidence beside you.
Proverbs 6:1
Modern English Version
Warning Against Pledges
6 My son, if you put up a security for your friend,
if you have shaken hands with a stranger,
Proverbs 6:1
Lexham English Bible
Against Pledges
6 My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor,
if you have bound yourself[a] to the stranger,
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:1 Literally “palms of your hands”
Proverbs 6:3
Modern English Version
3 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.
Proverbs 6:3
Lexham English Bible
3 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.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 6:3 Literally “the palm of the hand of your neighbor”
Proverbs 16:29
Modern English Version
29 A violent man entices his neighbor,
and leads him into the way that is not good.
Proverbs 16:29
Lexham English Bible
29 A person of violence will entice his neighbor
and cause him to walk on a way that is not good.
Proverbs 21:10
Modern English Version
10 The soul of the wicked desires evil;
his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.
Proverbs 21:10
Lexham English Bible
10 The soul[a] of the wicked desires evil;
his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 21:10 Or “soul, life, throat”
Proverbs 25:17
Modern English Version
17 Withdraw your foot from your neighbor’s house,
lest he be weary of you and so hate you.
Proverbs 25:17
Lexham English Bible
17 Make your foot scarce in the house of your neighbor,
lest he become weary of you and hate you.
Proverbs 27:10
Modern English Version
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.
Proverbs 27:10
Lexham English Bible
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.
Proverbs 27:14
Modern English Version
14 He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,
it will be counted a curse to him.
Proverbs 27:14
Lexham English Bible
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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