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29 Do not plan harm against your neighbor
    who lives trustingly beside you.(A)

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

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Practical Admonitions

My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
    if you have bound yourself to another,[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.1 Or a stranger

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 child, and save yourself,
    for you have come into your neighbor’s power:
    go, hurry,[a] and plead with your neighbor.

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Footnotes

  1. 6.3 Or 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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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Heb uncertain

29 The violent entice their neighbors
    and lead them in a way 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 souls of the wicked desire evil;
    their neighbors find no mercy in their eyes.(A)

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

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17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house,
    lest the neighbor become weary of you and 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 the friend of your parent;
    do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity.
Better is a neighbor who is nearby
    than kindred who are far away.(A)

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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 Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice,
    rising early in the morning,
    will be counted as cursing.

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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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