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29 Don’t devise evil against your neighbor,
    since he dwells securely by you.

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29 (A)Do not plan evil against your neighbor,
    who (B)dwells trustingly beside you.

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My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor,
    if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger,

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Practical Warnings

My son, if you have put up (A)security for your neighbor,
    have (B)given your pledge for a stranger,

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Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself,
    since you have come into the hand of your neighbor.
Go, humble yourself.
    Press your plea with your neighbor.

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then do this, my son, and save yourself,
    for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
    go, hasten,[a] and (A)plead urgently with your neighbor.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Or humble yourself

29 A man of violence entices his neighbor,
    and leads him in a way that is not good.

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29 A man of violence (A)entices his neighbor
    and leads him in a way that is not good.

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10 The soul of the wicked desires evil;
    his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

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10 The soul of the wicked desires evil;
    his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

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17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house,
    lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

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17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house,
    lest he have his fill of you and hate you.

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10 Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend.
    Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster.
    A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

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10 Do not forsake your friend and (A)your father's friend,
    and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity.
(B)Better is a neighbor who is near
    than a brother who is far away.

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14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning,
    it will be taken as a curse by him.

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

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