29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor,
For he dwells by you for safety’s sake.

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Dangerous Promises

My son, (A)if you become [a]surety for your friend,
If you have [b]shaken hands in pledge for a stranger,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:1 guaranty or collateral
  2. Proverbs 6:1 Lit. struck

So do this, my son, and deliver yourself;
For you have come into the hand of your friend:
Go and humble yourself;
Plead with your friend.

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29 A violent man entices his neighbor,
And leads him in a way that is not good.

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

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17 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house,
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 to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
(A)Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

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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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