29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor,
    who lives trustfully near you.(A)

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29 Don’t plan to harm your neighbor
    who trusts and lives near you.

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Warnings Against Folly

My son,(A) if you have put up security(B) for your neighbor,(C)
    if you have shaken hands in pledge(D) for a stranger,

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Wise advice

My son, if you guarantee a loan for your neighbor
    or shake hands in agreement with a stranger,

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So do this, my son, to free yourself,
    since you have fallen into your neighbor’s hands:
Go—to the point of exhaustion—[a]
    and give your neighbor no rest!

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Or Go and humble yourself,

Do this, my son, to get out of it,
    for you have come under the control of your neighbor.
    So go, humble yourself,[a] and pester your neighbor.

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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Heb uncertain

29 A violent person entices their neighbor
    and leads them down a path that is not good.(A)

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29 Violent people entice their neighbors
    and walk them down a path that isn’t good.

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10 The wicked crave evil;
    their neighbors get no mercy from them.

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10 Wicked people desire evil;
    their neighbors receive no mercy from them.

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17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house—
    too much of you, and they will hate you.

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17 Don’t spend too much time in your neighbor’s house.
    Otherwise, they’ll get fed up with you and hate you.

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10 Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,
    and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster(A) strikes you—
    better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.

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10 Don’t desert your friend or a friend of your family;
    don’t go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes.
    Better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.

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14 If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning,
    it will be taken as a curse.

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14 Greeting a neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning
    will be viewed as a curse.

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