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

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

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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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Wise advice

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

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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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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 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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Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Heb uncertain

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

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

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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 he have his fill 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 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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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 his 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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