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27 Do not withhold good from its owner[a]
    when it is in the power of your hand to do.
28 Do not say to your neighbor,
    “Go and return and tomorrow I will give it,”
    when it is with you.[b]
29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor
    who dwells in confidence beside you.
30 Do not quarrel with anyone without cause,
    when he did not do you harm.
31 Do not envy a man of violence,
    and do not choose any of his ways,
32 for he who is perverse is an abomination of Yahweh,
    but those who are upright are his confidence.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 3:27 Or “lord”
  2. Proverbs 3:28 Literally “and there is with you”