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

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

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Parental Counsel

My son, if you have become a (A)guarantor for your neighbor,
Or have given a handshake 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”

Then do this, my son, and save yourself:
Since you have come into the [a]hand of your neighbor,
Go, humble yourself, and be urgent with your neighbor to free yourself.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Lit palm

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 person of violence (A)entices his neighbor
And leads him in 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 the wicked desires evil;
His (A)neighbor is shown no compassion 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 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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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:17 Lit surfeited with

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 (A)friend or (B)your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house on the day of your disaster;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother 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 (A)One who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be considered 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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