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

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29 Don’t plan any harm against your neighbor,(A)
for he trusts you 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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Financial Entanglements

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor[a]
or entered into an agreement with[b] a stranger,[c](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:1 Or friend
  2. Proverbs 6:1 Lit or shaken hands for or with
  3. Proverbs 6:1 The Hb word for stranger can refer to a foreigner, an Israelite outside one’s family, or simply to another person.

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

Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,
for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:
Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.

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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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29 A violent man lures his neighbor,(A)
leading him in a way that is not good.(B)

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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 A wicked person desires evil;
he has no consideration[a] for his neighbor.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:10 Or favor

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 Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house;
otherwise, he’ll get sick of 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 abandon your friend or your father’s friend,(A)
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.(B)

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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 If one blesses his neighbor
with a loud voice early in the morning,
it will be counted as a curse to him.

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