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29 Do not plot harm against your neighbor
    who dwells in confidence beside you.

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

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Against Pledges

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor,
    if you have bound yourself[a] to the stranger,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:1 Literally “palms of your hands”

Wise advice

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

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do this, then, my child, and save yourself,
    for you have come into the palm of your neighbor’s hand:[a]
    Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:3 Literally “the palm of the hand of your neighbor”

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 A person of violence will entice his neighbor
    and cause him to walk on 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[a] of the wicked desires evil;
    his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:10 Or “soul, life, throat”

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

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17 Make your foot scarce in the house of your neighbor,
    lest he 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 As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them,
    and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity.
    Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.

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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 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice
    early in the morning,
    a curse will be reckoned to him.

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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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